Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 April 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy

Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion

Mr. Andrew Munro:

We do legislation all the time that involves looking at legal principles and the like. However, the first port of call is what the policy is behind it, what principles are underpinning it and what, practically, one wants to happen. The issues paper is not a statement of Government policy. It is simply an attempt to raise some of the challenges there to help inform the committee's debate and obviously to open up that debate more widely with other witnesses. It is identifying those challenges and saying what the fundamental things we need to protect are. There are rights of the child, the rights of the surrogate mother and-----

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