Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The stakeholders include the baby, the donor and the surrogate mother. To what extent, on the basis of court cases already taking place in other jurisdictions, can we have reasonable assurance that we are covered in most eventualities? A few years ago, we had a couple of high-profile cases.

That seems to have tapered off recently. Would the witnesses comment on anonymous donors? Although we do not propose to go that route it would be no harm to have their advice on the pros and cons, as experienced in other jurisdictions.