Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Amendments No. 141 and 143, in combination, remove the requirement for surrogate mothers, donors or intending parents to be notified of an application seeking identifying information about them which has been submitted by a relevant person, a child born as a result of domestic surrogacy. This requirement is being removed because there is no provision for the surrogate mother, the donor or the intending parent to object to or prevent the release of such identifying information. In other words, this is a further safeguard in terms of the rights of identity of the child.