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19/02/2008
Adopted Children 'Should Have Citizenship Right'
Foreign children adopted by Irish parents living abroad should still be entitled to Irish citizenship, a report by the Law Reform Commission has recommended.
The commission's report, entitled 'Aspects of Intercountry Adoption Law', said that non-Irish national children should have the same rights as any other child of Irish parents.
The study, which is due to be unveiled today, was launched following the case of Tristan Dowse.
Five-year-old Tristan was adopted by Joe Dowse, from Co. Wicklow and his wife Lala, from Azerbaijan, in Indonesia. However, he was returned to an orphanage when his adoptive parents said that the adoption was not working out.
Last February, the High Court ruled that the couple had breached their constitutional duties in returning the child to the orphanage and must support him until he was 18.
Tristan, who is now living with his birth mother, was removed from the Register of Foreign Adoptions maintained by the Adoption Board, but kept his Irish citizenship and rights of succession to the estates of his adoptive parents.
(KMcA)
The commission's report, entitled 'Aspects of Intercountry Adoption Law', said that non-Irish national children should have the same rights as any other child of Irish parents.
The study, which is due to be unveiled today, was launched following the case of Tristan Dowse.
Five-year-old Tristan was adopted by Joe Dowse, from Co. Wicklow and his wife Lala, from Azerbaijan, in Indonesia. However, he was returned to an orphanage when his adoptive parents said that the adoption was not working out.
Last February, the High Court ruled that the couple had breached their constitutional duties in returning the child to the orphanage and must support him until he was 18.
Tristan, who is now living with his birth mother, was removed from the Register of Foreign Adoptions maintained by the Adoption Board, but kept his Irish citizenship and rights of succession to the estates of his adoptive parents.
(KMcA)
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