asked the Minister for Justice if his attention has been drawn to the public concern that under present statutes no legitimate child can be adopted in the State unless that child is an orphan, that if a legitimate child is placed in an institution by its parents or simply abandoned by them there is no possibility of such a child being placed for adoption and if he intends to introduce amending legislation on the matter.
Written Answers. - Adoption Law.
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I dealt at length with the question of the adoption of legitimate children in my Second Stage Speech on the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution (Adoption) Bill, 1978 in the Dáil on 7 February 1979 (Vol. 311, No. 4, cols. 585-587). I have nothing to add to what I said then.