Lorraine Clifford-Lee (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Dr. Bracken for that extra information. On the declaration of parentage and the post-birth or pre-birth transfer of parentage, as the committee is examining international surrogacy, is this an issue that is outside our scope because we in Ireland do not have the ability to dictate whether another country looks at parentage post-birth or pre-birth? In the situation we were talking about, a woman is just after giving birth and there is a newborn baby there. We cannot really say we see these two guys as the legal parents therefore the hospital in Canada, the UK or wherever has to recognise them, or can we?