It has published its annual report for 2020.
The Adoption Authority of Ireland expects an increase in the number of adopted people seeking to trace biological parents.
It has published its annual report for 2020.
There were just 353 new registrants who applied to join the National Adoption Contact Preference Register in 2020, down from 469 new registrants joined in 2019 and 561 in 2018.
The decline is attributable, in part, to the Covid 19 pandemic.
Last year, there were a total of 77 potential matches identified between new registrants and previously registered family members
Patricia Carey is Chief Executive of the Adoption Authority of Ireland.
She joined Clem Ryan on Friday's edition of Kildare Today.
The country's adoption authority has said it expects a surge in people seeking to trace their birth relatives after the numbers registering for the service fell last year due to the pandemichttps://t.co/qz3ZEbwH2R | @noelbaker1 reports
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