Ms Marion Boteju:

The article the Deputy has cited was related to a Bill being considered in Washington DC and that would be considered in New York. The concern of those advocating for women, children and families about the creation of a second class citizenry because of that Bill was related to women who would be targeted as the supply side in commercial surrogacy, those women living in inner cities and under poverty levels. Without knowing the inner city demographics in the districts that would be impacted on by the Irish legislation, I cannot answer the Deputy's question. I can answer it from the perspective of how that article was authored. We have populations in our districts that would be targeted explicitly. The Bill was being introduced in areas where the participants in these transactions would be participants not based on altruism but necessity. That is a fair answer to the Deputy's question.