Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms de Boer-Buquicchio very much. I will come in briefly because I want to clarify the question I raised earlier about the birth certificate and the balancing between the rights of a child to his or her identity and the rights to non-discrimination. Because surrogacy is one of those issues about which people hold passionate and often quite divergent views, there would be a risk that were a publicly-available birth certificate that listed a surrogate on it to be made known to the public, there could be some element of discrimination against the child on the basis of his or her origins. Is it the case, therefore, that a child's right to his or her identity can be met through a non-private register of identity rather than placing the name of the surrogate on a publicly-available birth certificate?