Alan Shatter
Question:155 Mr. Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of adoption orders made by the Adoption Board in 1996 and in 1997; if he will give details of the number of orders that were made in favour of couples or an individual unrelated to the child adopted; and the way in which adoption orders were made in favour of the mother of the child adopted and her husband, the father of the child adopted and his wife and relatives of the child adopted where neither was a natural parent of the child. [2348/98]