Erin McGreehan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Woellenstein for her important contribution today. We have skirted round her organisation and looked at the Verona principles. It is great to have Ms Woellenstein in front of us today.

They are important principles and they have not come by accident. They have come with great research and deliberation. It is important that we take them into serious consideration and work through them in this committee. We see on a European level, I hope, that the Verona principles will be the precursor to a European model of surrogacy and a framework that each country can use. How close are we, in terms of a timeline, to the Commission and the Parliament looking at this and creating that framework based on the Verona principles?