(1) With reference to any policy on adoptions that was put in place by her department regarding the issuing and/or refusal of Article 17 of the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, 1993, what is the position of the specified policies regarding (a) intercountry adoptions as a last resort in permanency planning for adoptable children, (b) the exhaustion of each and every national placement option for the child before consideration can be given to intercountry placements and (c) the registration of an adoptable child for 60 days on the Registration of Adoptable Children and Prospective Adoptive Parents (RACAP) satisfying the specified convention’s principle of subsidiarity; (2) whether any additional requirements should be met to satisfy the specified convention’s subsidiarity before an Article 17 adoption will be issued by her department; if not, what is the basis for her department’s refusal to issue the specified article adoptions where the principle of subsidiarity has been satisfied through 60 days of registration on RACAP; if so, (a) what are the relevant details and (b) is there a written document which contains these additional requirements; (3) (a) how often does her department update the RACAP and (b) on which dates since 1 January 2015 was the RACAP circulated to accredited adoption service providers?