Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Many of the witnesses before us have welcomed the proposal in the legislation to put the welfare of children at the heart of the decision making process. I am interested in hearing how Family and Life would balance desire that with its opinion that the legislation will deliberately deprive children of certain essential rights and that children will be treated as commodities. How was it established that children would be deprived of certain essential rights and what are these rights? How would they be treated as commodities? Is that a reference to surrogacy or is it something bigger?