Dr. Brian Tobin:

I commend the members on everything they are doing. My recommendation on taking time and getting Departments on board really comes from a good place.

There is the question of the potential payment of surrogates and I keep an open mind on this. The UK's Law Commission has put this out in its consultation paper and I am waiting to see what it comes back with. I do not believe it will come back in favour of letting the market set the payment for surrogates and I am not in favour of that fully commercial model. There could potentially be a more compensated model. The briefing document considered Greece and the UK and that is what altruistic surrogacy seems to be, largely, in practice. I am certainly keeping an open mind as to the potential for compensating surrogates.