Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael)
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233. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48469/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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The Adoption (Amendment) Act 2017, other than Section 24(1)(a) was commenced on the 19th of October 2017. Section 24(1)(a) which will come in to operation on the 1st February 2018, provides that before making an application for a child to be adopted because of parental failure, Tusla – the Child and Family Agency must be satisfied that every reasonable effort has been made to support the parents of the child in question.