Dáil expected to amend adoption legislation

A pre-Christmas breakthrough is expected for a number of families who had feared their planned adoptions of Russian children would be prevented by international legal roadblocks.

The Dáil is scheduled to vote through legislation next Thursday which will remove an obstacle that had threatened to scupper the hopes of couples like Lisa and Michael Fennessy who had highlighted their case.

Changes to Russian law, making it incompatible with laws here, threatened to prevent the Fennessys’ planned adoption of 19-month-old Alexander who they hoped could be brought to their home in Ballyduff, Waterford, by the end of the year.