Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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These are questions about opinions. There are other views not represented in the room. For example, there is the issue of multiple births. The worst excesses involve the perception of some poor women from the slums of Calcutta or Manila receiving multiple implantations. That is the reason many people have concerns about fertility treatment and the industry behind it. In some parts of the world children's kidneys are being removed for organ donation. Equally, there could also be this terrible exploitation of vulnerable poor women. In the context of the internationalisation and commercialisation of the industry, is the legislation, as presented, regardless of the concerns we might have about some parts of it, sufficient to address concerns about women being brought into the country in future years to be surrogates?