Ms Emma O'Friel:

This is one of the problems. It is the lack of power of that group of people. The evidence is in the submission. As I said, we have not got the evidence from Susan Golombok's research because it has not reached that far. What we have to go by, therefore, is listening to people on the street as well as academic research, and I have done a masters degree. When I say people on the street, I mean people's lived experience - people in Donor Offspring Europe, Anonymous Us in America, Spenderkinder, Tangled Webs and many other organisations around the world. That is the evidence and it is there. There are many people to speak to and invite to the committee from organisations around the world. They have not been part of the discussion and they are crying out for research because their voices are not being heard-----