Dr. Mary Wingfield:

I have a few couples at the moment who need to have surrogacy. I have a couple where the woman was born without a uterus. She has very healthy ovaries and is young. She would be able to produce very good quality eggs to lead to a healthy pregnancy. That couple's wish of their only chance of having a child together is to use their own sperm and eggs but they need a woman to carry the pregnancy, so they need a surrogate. Their only option currently in Ireland is to go to India, the United States or countries like that. If we allowed surrogacy here, that couple need to be able to let people know that they need a surrogate. There are women who have had healthy pregnancies and have children who have seen family members or friends with fertility problems and would very much like to help another couple achieve a child. Those women who wish to be altruistic surrogates need to be able to find the couples who need surrogates. There needs to be some mechanism where the provision of that information can take place.