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. Andrea Mulligan:
Yes and do it. Ultimately, what we want is a Hague Convention on surrogacy. That will exist in a few years' time. In adoption law, basically, all jurisdictions struggled with what to do with international adoption until the Hague Convention was finally established and that really sorted it all out. The Deputy probably knows colloquially that adoption is much more streamlined now than it was 20 years ago. We are just in that phase where we have to come to some decisions on surrogacy ourselves without the assistance of any international regime. There is no reason we should not do it.
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