Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed)
9:00 am
Dr. John Waterstone:
It is too restrictive. To answer the Deputy's question regarding scandalous practices in countries such as India and Thailand to which people were travelling through agencies in a very commercialised way and many middle men were profiting from it, those countries are closing their doors to that. India and Thailand have closed their doors to international surrogacy. We are worried about that practice here but the countries concerned are clamping down on it. That, at least, is progressive and we should be aware of that change.
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