Two-year wait for preparatory adoption course
Cork County Council is to write to the southern region’s Health Service Executive to urge it to employ more social workers after hearing the plight of some couples, whose cases were outlined yesterday by Councillor Michael McGrath.
He said that the lack of social workers was responsible for causing a backlog.
In effect, Mr McGrath said, if it took couples two years to get on the course it meant it could take up to a further year for couples to get approval to search for an adoption in a foreign country.
The HSE was criticised by councillors for failing to reply to a letter sent by council officials last year. They had asked for assistance in setting up defibrillation teams in County Hall.
After county manager Maurice Moloney said he wasn’t aware of any response from the HSE, Sinn Féin’s Councillor Martin Hallinan saw red.
“They didn’t even have the courtesy to reply,” he remarked.
