Professor Deirdre Madden:

Then that information should not be forced on them. The issue that arises in those instances is that if the children are not informed by their parents that they have been born through donor conception, then they do not know that they can access that information and therefore they never seek it, so they are never told by the State or by anybody else. Public awareness, education and support should be given to intended parents through surrogacy, through the donor health registry, DHR, or through whatever procedure is being used such as egg donation or embryo donation, for example. There should be encouragement, counselling and support for parents in that instance to encourage them to tell their children at the earliest possible opportunity that they have been conceived in this way and therefore it never comes as a shock to them and they grow up knowing the circumstances of their birth and that they can access information on the donor when the law considers it appropriate. I am fully supportive of the identification of donors.