Mr. Cormac Grundy:

For the purposes of intercountry adoption, Ireland is a signatory to the Hague Convention. That means we allow intercountry adoptions only from other Hague Convention countries, where we can be satisfied about the consent of the birth mother and things of that nature. The issue for surrogacy is that there is no international convention. I know Hague does international private law and it is in the very early stages of looking at some type of international convention on surrogacy, but it is extremely early days.