Ireland

Country Code: IE
Area: 43,666 sq mi (70,273km²)
Gross Domestic Product: 203 Billion Dollar
Population: 4,239,848

Country related organizations and persons

Organization	Link	Country	From	To
Irish Adoption Board, Ireland	Central authority of	Ireland

Organizations based in Ireland:

Accreditation office

Organization	State/Province	City
Irish Adoption Board, Ireland		Dublin

Adoption Agency

Organization	State/Province	City
Helping Hands, Ireland		Dublin

Governmental Organization

Organization	State/Province	City
Department of Children and Youth Affairs - Ireland	Dublin	Dublin

Cases:

Child trafficking cases

Report	Date
India - misc Child trafficking cases	1995-01-01
Mexico - Carlos Lopez case	2012-01-14
Vietnam - My Linh Soland aka My-Linh Duong Soland case	2006-07-11

Adoption statistics:

Adoption imports

Country from	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Russian Federation	65	45	107	139	189	131	143	160	117	100	80	124	49	17
Vietnam	9	10	81	39	16	92	68	130	182	136	10
Ethiopia	4		2	7	16	13	14	17	26	21	75	42	32	26
China	16	16	51	56	60	52	33	31	19	10	9	6	1	3
Mexico	2	1	1	3	3	9	4	8	22	16	10	3	1
Kazakhstan	23	19	23	17	9	16	15	6	4	7	1	4
United States of America				1		2	2	5	4	4	7	7	19	7
Belarus	5	11	27	39	56	2		1
Ukraine	2		12	14	12	27	11	8	9	2	2
Thailand	9	5	15	16	8	2	6	9	11	6	2		2	5
Guatemala	11	14	18	11	17	13	10	10
Romania	69	48	13	8	2		1		1
India	3		1	2	4	3	3	3					10	10
Taiwan		3	1	1	1	1	1	1		2	1	1	3	1
Philippines	3		1	2	2	2	6	6				1
Cambodia											3
Colombia		3	1	1					1	1				1
Uzbekistan								1		1
Bulgaria	2	1	1											1
Peru										1
South Africa									1
Paraguay				2
Libya						1
Bosnia and Herzegovina Federation					1
Brazil					1
Malawi					1
Zimbabwe			1
Kenya		1
El_Salvador														1
Total	223	177	356	358	398	366	317	396	397	307	200	188	117	72

Source: The Adoption Authority of Ireland

Adoption exports

This information is compiled from the figures as reported by the receiving countries.

Reports:

Reports

Document	Date
Details of deaths of children known to HSE services revealed	2013-11-15
HSE chiefs 'failed to fully investigate child sexual abuse claims'	2013-11-15
Minister's adoption remarks 'worrying'	2013-09-05
Notice: U.S. – Ireland Operating Arrangement for Outgoing Adoptions of U.S. Children by Irish Prospective Adoptive Parents	2013-05-03
Social workers miss intercountry adoption applications targets	2009-05-24
Vietnamese adoptions thrown into doubt	2009-04-07
Silence greets exposure of corrupt adoption practices	2006-07-29
Adoption chief used Vietnam fraudster as a tour guide	2006-07-11
We Irish play an essential role in illegal trafficking in babies	2006-07-10
'Evil' adoption scandal	2006-07-08
Irish agency severs ties with Soland	2006-07-08
'We nicknamed her DR EVIL but no-one dared challenge her because we were afraid we would not get our babies'	2006-07-08
Babies adopted through fraudster 'won't be returned'	2006-06-22
Foreign adoptions: latest form of human traffic?	2006-06-20
Vietnamese adoption agent was jailed in US for fraud	2006-06-20

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