Ms Maud de Boer-Buquicchio:

I am afraid this is very difficult to answer. The access to identity information should be facilitated in accordance with the age and maturity of the child. How this should be done and how the civil registration and vital statistics system should include and preserve identity information relating to each child born through surrogacy is something to which I do not have a final answer. I did not suggest initially or during my presentation that when the surrogate mother should be identified on the birth certificate, it should say a person was only a birth mother or only a surrogate birth mother. It should be her name and then all the rest will have to be dealt with, as the Chairman suggested, perhaps, in a separate confidential register.