Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am very happy to get into this. Today's session is important. I hope we can work our way through the surrogacy aspect. This will be the first legislation of its type anywhere in the world that I and my officials are aware of. I thank the committee members. I know that a lot of time was spent by the surrogacy committee and by colleagues here in the health committee. Very thoughtful amendments have been tabled. The last session was very useful and I think this will also be a very useful session. We have reflected on and discussed at length the various amendments colleagues have submitted and we will go through them today. It will be a good session today if we can get through the very substantial amendments on surrogacy that we are hoping to put in place.