Pain of illegal adoption can only be healed with enquiry

In response to the excellent article by Conall O’Fatharta (Irish Examiner, February 4), I am outraged by Minister Fitzgerald’s response that all adoptions were carried out and sanctioned by the Adoption Board (AAI), after 1952.

Not so long ago I met with Minister Fitzgerald. Accompanying me was an ‘illegal’ adoptee whose adoption was sanctioned by the Adoption Board after 1952.

There are documented cases also that show that adoptions were carried out post-1952 where the natural parents were married and documents falsified. There has never been an audit of adoptions carried out and indeed there are no plans to.