Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 129:

In page 57, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: "(3) The following shall be parties to a section 62 application:

(a) the intending parents (or, in the case of a single intending parent, that intending parent);

(b) the surrogate mother;

(c) the child who was born as a result of AHR treatment provided pursuant to the permitted surrogacy.".

The amendment confirms that the parties to a parental order application will be the surrogate mother, intending parents and the child concerned. Amendment No. 131 states the AHRRA and the Attorney General will be served with a copy of any such application, and amendment No. 134 provides for the court to be able to add the AHRRA, the Attorney General or any other person or parties to parental order application proceedings. It also allows for the AHRRA or Attorney General to request to be added to any such proceedings.