Erin McGreehan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Ms de Boer-Buquicchio is very welcome. Her contribution was really interesting and important. It is beginning to frame in my mind where the regulations need to begin and how we start to control and to properly safeguard international surrogacy, as well as surrogacy in general. Ms de Boer-Buquicchio’s raised the point about the pre-birth transfer and whether there is any compensation involved. From her experience, is there a country that has been doing this, where this does not constitute the sale of children? Is there a country that could be considered the best boy in class on this, let us say? I ask this because we need to make sure we have all the safeguards in place.