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442. Deputy Charlie McConalogue   asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of recorded inter-country adoptions by Irish adoptors in the past ten years in tabular form outlining the number of adoptions in each year and the breakdown by nationality of the children adopted. [24319/12]
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Deputy Frances Fitzgerald): The following table shows the adoptions effected by Irish residents issued with Declarations of Eligibility and Suitability by country and year 2001-2010. It should be noted that these adoptions were registered in the Register of Foreign Adoptions in compliance with the Adoption Act 1991. It should also be noted that there was no legal obligation under the Adoption Act 1991 on adopters to register the adoption of their children.
[476]Registrations Pre-Adoption Act, 2010 (i.e. 2001-2010)
| Country |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
Total |
| Belarus |
11 |
27 |
39 |
56 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
136 |
| Bos. and Herz. |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Brazil |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Bulgaria |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
| Cambodia |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
| China |
16 |
51 |
56 |
60 |
52 |
33 |
31 |
19 |
10 |
9 |
337 |
| Colombia |
3 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
7 |
| Ethiopia |
0 |
2 |
7 |
16 |
13 |
14 |
17 |
26 |
21 |
75 |
191 |
| Kazakhstan |
19 |
23 |
17 |
9 |
16 |
15 |
6 |
4 |
7 |
1 |
117 |
| Kenya |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Malawi |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Mexico |
1 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
9 |
4 |
8 |
22 |
16 |
10 |
77 |
| Peru |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Romania |
48 |
13 |
8 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
73 |
| Russia |
45 |
107 |
139 |
189 |
131 |
143 |
160 |
117 |
100 |
80 |
1,211 |
| South Africa |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Taiwan |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
12 |
| Thailand |
5 |
15 |
16 |
8 |
2 |
6 |
9 |
11 |
6 |
2 |
80 |
| Ukraine |
0 |
12 |
14 |
12 |
27 |
11 |
6 |
9 |
2 |
2 |
95 |
| Uzbekistan |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| USA, Florida |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
7 |
18 |
| USA, Texas |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
| Vietnam |
10 |
81 |
39 |
16 |
92 |
68 |
130 |
182 |
136 |
10 |
764 |
| Zimbabwe |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Total |
163 |
336 |
341 |
375 |
347 |
298 |
374 |
397 |
307 |
200 |
3138 |
The following table shows the number of intercountry adoptions registered by the Adoption Authority of Ireland from its establishment on 1st November, 2010 to date, which have been entered in the Register of Intercountry Adoptions. (These are adoptions effected by Irish applicants with Declarations of Eligibility and Suitability to Adopt).
Registrations post-Adoption Act, 2010
| Country |
No. of Adoptions |
| China |
7 |
| Ethiopia |
71 |
| India |
2 |
| Kazakhstan |
6 |
| Mexico |
9 |
| Philippines |
1 |
| Russia |
159 |
| South Africa |
1 |
| Taiwan |
4 |
| Thailand |
2 |
| Ukraine |
1 |
| USA |
18 |
| Total |
281 |
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