Dr. Niall Muldoon:

I have read the feedback the Ukrainian commissioner for children has given. From our point of view, we are against commercial surrogacy. We are very clear in that regard. The best interests of children need to be protected from the possible exploitation of anybody, whether child or mother. We are in agreement on that. We also believe that the rights of children need to be protected by legislating and creating opportunities now. That is what this committee is here for. This is about creating an opportunity so that there will be no future need to apologise to anybody. A great amount of work is being done with regard to international rights standards. I might ask my colleague, Ms Groarke, to go into that a little bit further.