Adoption Bill 2009
Public bill · Government · Presented
Replaces An Bord Uchtála with the Adoption Authority of Ireland and creates a single modern framework for domestic and intercountry adoptions. It makes the Hague Convention part of Irish law, strengthens safeguards for children and birth parents, regulates adoption agencies, sets rules for recognising overseas adoptions, and maintains adoption registers while protecting confidential records.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the dissolution of An Bord Uchtála and the establishment of a body to be known in the Irish language as Údarás Uchtála na hÉireann or in the English language as the Adoption Authority of Ireland; to provide for matters relating to the adoption of children; to give the force of law to the Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption signed at the Hague on 29 May 1993; to provide for the making and recognition of intercountry adoptions in accordance with bilateral agreements and with other arrangements; to provide for the recognition of certain adoptions effected outside the State; to repeal the Adoption Acts 1952 to 1998; and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
Last updated 12 April 2018
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- Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages Seanad
- Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage Dáil
- Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage Dáil
- Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages Dáil
- Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). Dáil
- Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Referral to Select Committee. Dáil
- Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). Dáil
- Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage. Dáil
- Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). Dáil
- Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. Seanad
- Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). Seanad
- Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage. Seanad
- Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed). Seanad
- Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed). Seanad
- Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed). Seanad
- Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed). Seanad
- Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage. Seanad
- Adoption Bill 2009: Order for Second Stage. Seanad
- Adoption Bill 2009: Second Stage. Seanad