Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy

Rights of Children: Discussion

Ms Caoimhe Nic Dhomhnaill:

I am not sure of the follow-ups beyond 2017, but I am sure Dr. Golombok will be able to answer that when she appears before the committee. The children probably have not reached the appropriate age. A six-phase study has just been started. There are biases in the fact the rates of psychological adjustment are better in this group of children because education in this group will be different. If members of this group can afford to pay for surrogacy, they are of a different socioeconomic status. There are lots of issues in the study. I have not looked at the control group. I will need to dig into it a little more to see whether all of that has been controlled for in the control group. I just wanted to put on the record the psychological adjustment is good.

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