David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I would like clarification on something. From my memory of the briefing we had with the officials, we had some discussion on this and it was exactly as Deputy Shortall pointed out with regard to the status of the child from the point of birth to the granting of a parental order. My understanding of the briefing we got was that both the intending parents and the mother would be guardians until the point when there would be an adjudication by the court, which would remove the right of the surrogate and the parental order would then transfer all of those rights to the intending parents. In the intervening period all three would be guardians. That was my understanding of what was said. Is that the position?