The Government has stepped up efforts to clarify the legal situation surrounding Tristan Dowse, the young boy caught in a legal limbo following his adoption by an Irish couple in Indonesia.
Following meetings involving the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Office of the Attorney General and the Adoption Board, a legal expert is to be sent to Jakarta by the department to assess the situation.
Separately, it is understood the Adoption Board is to send a social worker and one of its own board members to carry out its own investigation.
Three-year-old Tristan has been the centre of controversy since an Irish couple who adopted him left him in a Jakarta orphanage saying the arrangement had not worked out, according to the couple.
Until the legal situation is clarified Tristan cannot be the subject of further adoption orders and remains in a legal limbo.
