Rónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

It might be useful for us to tease out at a future meeting the reasons people are travelling and whether it is for legal reasons or the financial disadvantage issue that I proposed. Far from that being a statement, it was a question. My first question is regarding Professor Madden's response to what I asked about Sweden. Is it her understanding also that they are moving in a more conservative direction, in that there are moves to ban even altruistic surrogacy and why might that be the case? Second, the other issue I asked her was whether there ought to be a policy of discouragement. If she thinks there are downsides to this for children, that might influence her view on how we would go forward in terms of whether we regulate this practice on the basis that is happening anyway. If she thinks it ought not to be happening, would she agree that perhaps one might come to different public policy choices?