Ms Caoimhe Nic Dhomhnaill:

I would like to make a point about how concerns about the legal status and parentage distract the new parent. At a point when people are supposed to be preoccupied with their babies or young children, there are lots of other preoccupations. We need to think from a psychological point of view about how it impacts on attachment if parents are preoccupied with something else. I agree with all of what has been said before and that the issues are for the state of the intending parents because intention is important. The surrogate leaving the legal rights with the surrogate mother does not consider that she never intended being a parent.