The Law Reform Commission is publishing new proposals for reform in the area of intercountry adoption today.
The Commission's Director of Research, Ray Byrne, says the proposals stem, in part, from the Tristan Dowes case.
Tristan was adopted from an orphanage in Indonesia by an Irish couple in 2001 but who subsequently returned him to the orphanage.
Mr Byrne says 75% of the intercountry adoptions in Ireland are by couples that have been pre-vetted in the normal way.
But it is the couples that do not tell the adoption board and the Health Service Executive that they intend to adopt before returning with a child, who need additional regulation.
