Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 January 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
General Scheme of the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion
9:00 am
Ms Geraldine Luddy:
I want to come back to Deputy Durkan on surrogacy and parentage. The consent process is all the way along with the surrogate and the intending parents, and the regulatory authority will have a pre-authorised agreement, but the actual transfer of the parentage will happen in a court. It is a very robust system that we have put in place. The transfer of parentage will only happen before a judge in a court. It is to protect both the intending parents and the surrogate. It is quite a robust system that we have put in place.