Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To go back to Dr. Wingfield’s experience of shipping abroad and seeing paperwork coming back from different clinics, this is not just a case of working with countries, but working with clinics. The experience of the advocacy groups, and one in particular, is that a clinic can be fine for a while but there can be a change in personnel and then suddenly the clinic is not fine and does not meet standards. The converse can also be the case. Therefore, it is helpful to have a central place where there is a pool of information. We were fortunate that my husband was the chief executive of a medical NGO, so we had in-country knowledge, as well as ways of checking. However, not everybody has that access. If we had that within Ireland, then we would have that additional base of knowledge that could be accessed. If people are able to do egg collection at this end, it would be much better.