Skip to main content

To reform the Intercountry Adoption process so waiting children can be matched with waiting families

243 Comments

A
Anonymous
12 years ago

Please reform the laws and give couples and children the chance to be a happy family unit

D
Dara O'Brien
12 years ago

We need to break the wall of needless bureaucracy that stands between increasingly institutionalised children and families who want to give them loving homes. It is an outrage!

M
Miriam OShea
12 years ago

Every Child deserves the right to a family. Adoption is a last hope for many children. Adoption is not a second choice, it's a second chance. With the help of God someone with vision and courage will help create change so these little ones will have the last chance that adoption brings to them, of being part of a family. They have no voice, please make adoption a hope for these children, children who know no different. We can give them abundant love and care and take them out of very sad situations. Let us give these children a choice where there is none.

C
Carmel Hubbard
12 years ago

I feel very strongly about this issue.

K
Katherine
12 years ago

Children all deserve homes and due to slow and inefficient processes they remain in orphanages much longer than they should have to. Reform is urgently needed

K
Katherine
12 years ago

Children all deserve homes and due to slow and inefficient processes they remain in orphanages much longer than they should have to. Reform is urgently needed

L
Laura Clare
12 years ago

Inter country adoption needs to be reopen now. We are sick and tired of hearing promises and excuses from the people in charge of this process in Ireland. Yes because of Hague adoptions are down worldwide but in Ireland they are stopped. Why should we be deprived of the chance of becoming parents just because we are living in Ireland?

A
Anthony Kavanagh
12 years ago

This whole situation makes no sense. Children needing homes, families approved and prepared to give them. Whats the issue? Are the authorities here Anti Adoption. You would have to wonder??

A
Anonymous
12 years ago

Why can't Irish people adopt from UK with their 15,000 kids in need of a family, Hague ratified, our nearest neighbour.

C
Carmel Whyte
12 years ago

Every child deserves a loving family

D
Deirdre Ryan
12 years ago

No child should have to suffer an institutionalised life. Being given up by your first family is enough of a burden.

M
myrtle doherty, donegal, ireland
12 years ago

for the sake of the many great people in Ireland waiting to become parents and for the thousands of children waiting in orphanages for their forever family, please would the Irish government get their act together and get this mess sorted out!!!

C
Catherine Kavanagh
12 years ago

Every child should have a forever family. Please make this happen

C
Catherine Kavanagh
12 years ago

Every child should have a forever family. Please make this happen

B
bernie Kavanagh
12 years ago

Please let these children have a chance at a forever family

T
Tara O' Brien
12 years ago

Unacceptable holdup for everyone concerned!

P
Paddy Kavanagh
12 years ago

The system as it currently stands is failing children in Ireland and all over the world. The Minister can change this. Those in power seem to be anti adoption, therefore shouldn't hold the positions they do. Adoption is a great thing for all the children in the world who genuinely need it, and they are still there despite the spin that is put on the figures. They deserve a family.

B
Breda Hannon
12 years ago

Every child needs someone who will love them forever!

G
Gillian Boyd
12 years ago

Sort it out soon