379 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if he will examine a situation whereby, there having been signed a bilateral agreement for adoptions between Ireland and Vietnam in September 2003 which was ratified on 31 March 2004 and was due to come into effect 30 days later, the Adoption Board has only now decided, more than 200 days after the agreement was signed and more than 50 days after the ratification, to interview facilitators; the reason the facilitators have to travel here for interview when the delegation from the Adoption Board was already in Vietnam for at least seven days in April 2004; the further reason it took such a long time after the delegation had returned from Vietnam to interview facilitators; if it needed to interview facilitators, the reason that was not done by the delegation when it was in Vietnam; and the objectives of the delegation going to Vietnam if not to decide on facilitators and other issues. [17365/04]

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379 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if he will examine a situation whereby, there having been signed a bilateral agreement for adoptions between Ireland and Vietnam in September 2003 which was ratified on 31 March 2004 and was due to come into effect 30 days later, the Adoption Board has only now decided, more than 200 days after the agreement was signed and more than 50 days after the ratification, to interview facilitators; the reason the facilitators have to travel here for interview when the delegation from the Adoption Board was already in Vietnam for at least seven days in April 2004; the further reason it took such a long time after the delegation had returned from Vietnam to interview facilitators; if it needed to interview facilitators, the reason that was not done by the delegation when it was in Vietnam; and the objectives of the delegation going to Vietnam if not to decide on facilitators and other issues. [17365/04]

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