Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No. 112 seeks to clarify and expand further on the circumstances in which a surrogate agreement can be approved for different groups of intending parents. Specifically, the proposed new paragraph essentially sets out how an applicant can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the AHRRA that surrogacy is effectively the only route by which they can have a child. Therefore, for instance, a female intending parent has to be able to prove that she is either unable to conceive, including the use of AHR treatments, unable to gestate a pregnancy to birth, unlikely to survive a pregnancy or giving birth, or is likely to have her health significantly adversely affected by a pregnancy or giving birth.