Mr. Colm McGennis:

It can happen at any stage. Perhaps the surrogate mother will not agree to the guardianship immediately at birth. Perhaps she will not consent to the grant of the parental order. We are trying to include safeguards to minimise the risk of that happening but it probably, if not inevitably, will happen. We hope it will happen on rare occasions that the surrogate and the intending parents want the child or that none of them wants the child.