Catherine Byrne (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael)
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726. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of domestic adoptions and the number of inter-country adoptions which took place here in 2013; the number of social workers working in the area of adoption. [1288/14]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Adoption Authority of Ireland advises that in 2013 a total of 116 domestic adoption orders were made. Of these, 87 were family adoptions and 29 were non-family adoptions. In 2013 the Authority made 74 entries in the Register of Intercountry Adoptions in respect of applicants resident in Ireland.

I have been advised by the Child and Family Agency and the Adoption Authority that there are approximately 112 social workers in the Child and Family Agency and various accredited agencies dealing with adoption services including intercountry and domestic adoption assessments, post adoption reporting and information and tracing.