Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I agree. In straightforward gestationalin vitrofertilization, IVF, I can go to a clinic, and, with the exception of our next witness's clinic, everyone along the way is paid. The clinic is paid. We do not get into the morality of the size of the payment and the fact that people have to travel to Prague to get cheaper IVF services than they would in Ireland if planning to carry the pregnancy themselves. The lawyers are paid. Everybody is paid, yet there is somehow an ethical issue here with a woman, assuming she has autonomously consented and it is safeguarded, and some are happy to stigmatise that. The double standard that is being ignored in the fertility journey is that private medicine is paid for through the nose by couples needing to grapple with their infertility.