Minister Frances Fitzgerald visits South Tipp
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald TD asks Adoption Authority to visit Vietnam. Picture at the event Geoffrey Shannon, Chairmanship of the Adoption Authority. The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald TD Ms. Elizabeth Canavan, the new Chief Executive Office of the Adoption Authority. The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald TD, has today asked the Chairman of the Adoption Authority to visit Vietnam to assess current standards in their ratification of the Hague Convention. The Minister and the Authority agreed that, in view of the fact that Vietnam hopes to ratify the Hague Convention in June, it would be appropriate for the Authority to visit Vietnam. The purpose of the visit is to explore the progress Vietnamese authorities have made in addressing the profound concerns which caused the suspension of adoptions. I am pleased that Vietnam has signed the Hague Convention, but recognise the significant body of work that still needs to be don
The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald TD, is set to visit South Tipperary this week, stopping at several towns across the county.
Her visit will begin on Wednesday, September 5, at the Millennium Family Resource Centre in Glengoole, at 11am, where she will unveil a mosaic.
She will then make her way to Clonmel where among her stops will be the Clonmel Youth Services and Youth Training facility at the Wilderness, where the minister will have lunch with local youth agencies and representatives of South Tipperary County Council and constituency officers.
In the afternoon Minister Fitzgerald will be in Tipperary Town where she will visit Knockanrawley Resource Centre at 2.45pm, and the Tipperary Regional Youth Centre at 3.30pm.
The minister’s tour of the county will finish in Cashel where she will meet with local guides and scouts at the Spafield Resource Centre at 4pm and finally attend a meeting of local Fine Gael members, in Mikey Ryan’s, in the early evening.
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