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)
Dr. Aoife Campbell:
On our experience for European clinics, certainly we are all governed by European tissues and cells directive, so that gives us a degree of confidence to begin with. However, that would only apply to EU countries. Beyond that, one would have to look the law in place, if possible, but that is a big ask for a doctor and a scientist to be looking at law in other countries in order to see whether or not those clinics are complying. As Dr. Wingfield said, you get a sense from the paperwork you get back how extensive it is, whether it looks like it has properly controlled documents and little things that are normal for us. You can see that reflected or not in paperwork that you get, which helps you establish very quickly whether or not you are comfortable going forward with an arrangement. If we had domestic law, we would be supported in our decisions, rather than us kind of going out on a limb a little bit.
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