The solicitor representing the couple who adopted three-year-old Tristan Dowse yesterday said he was hopeful of a breakthrough in the coming weeks which would facilitate the boy's readoption or placement.
Wicklow-based lawyer Gus Cullen said he was preparing an application for the High Court which would cancel the adoption in Ireland after receiving instructions from Joe and Lala Dowse.
However, the solicitor said he was waiting for a report from the Adoption Board and the Department of Foreign Affairs before progressing matters.
"I'm hopeful there will be a breakthrough in the next week or two," he said, adding that the Dowses would "facilitate any procedures that are in Tristan's best interest".
Tristan was adopted by Joe Dowse and his wife Lala when he was two-months-old. He was placed in the care of an orphanage in Jakarta two years later after the couple said the adoption did not work out.
Last week he was moved from the Jakarta orphanage to a State-run facility by Indonesian authorities.There is confusion over the status of the adoption.
