In January this year, I announced that legislation to ratify The Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption was being drafted as a matter of priority and I hope it will be published at the end of the year. The Hague Convention is the international instrument that regulates adoptions of children between jurisdictions and sets out the standards expected of both countries of origin and receiving countries in inter-country adoptions.
The case to which the question refers is an adoption which was effected domestically in Indonesia and subsequently registered in Ireland. Current legislative provisions allow domestic adoptions effected legally in other countries to be registered in Ireland and for the High Court to make an order for that registration to be cancelled if such cancellation is found to be in the best interests of the adopted person. It is not proposed to amend these provisions.