Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 April 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy

Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Mary Seery KearneyMary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have a reality of Canada being considered a compensated surrogacy regime, and yet the payments to the surrogate mother in Canada are vastly in excess of those that are paid in normal times to surrogate mothers in Ukraine, for instance. There is that disparity in economic well-being of the country and how far a euro will go in either country. There should be some sort of a recognition in that respect within our understanding of the compensation regime. That is something that ethically could be put in-----

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