Ms Emma O'Friel:

I refer to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Donna Lyons in the school of law in Trinity College Dublin has had a paper published in theInternational Journal of Law, Policy and the Family. She is Irish and she explicitly refers to Ireland in that paper. She details how the Irish State justifies the development of telling children at the age of 18, which means telling adults about their parents, as wishing to meet its obligations under the convention. She wrote "it is essential that States Parties appropriately translate the requirements of the Convention into domestic law, thereby recognizing the right of the donor-conceived child." Her point is that if Ireland is following the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, not the rights of the child when he or she becomes an adult, then children need to know who their parents are. That was published in 2018.