Ms Geraldine Luddy:

Donors will have to be 18 to donate gametes. There will be allowance made, obviously, if somebody has a health problem, such as a cancer problem, and needs to preserve his gametes. There will be exceptions made for that.

For a woman, we have an upper age limit of 47. We do not have a specific age limit for a man, and that is purely because of biology, evidence and everything else. Obviously, as the CMO has said, it is down to a clinical assessment and the reasonable opinion of the medical practitioner who is dealing with the couple or individuals as to what is the most appropriate treatment.