Ms Siobhan Byrne:

I am not aware of any case whereby a delay in a parent establishing citizenship has affected a surrogacy case. I am not aware of any case where this has occurred. When I said there had been cases previously it was more where the parent was not a citizen and, therefore, the child had no entitlement. There have been cases of this but not where it has been affected through a delay in the parent acquiring citizenship, through naturalisation or any other method.