Dr. Mary Wingfield:

This is a difficulty, particularly as people from Ireland have gone to the same clinic in Spain. That is a reason the issue must be addressed and regulated. The clinics in Ireland which provide sperm donations have completely off their own bat introduced a system under which they all communicate with each other in limiting the number of children who can be born from a particular sperm donation. Clinics and embryologists in this country must really be commended because they did this completely off their own bat, with no Government or State support.