Mr. Niall Redmond:

I might also step in here as well. The other point to make is that the AHR Bill has been in development for a long period of time. It was never intended that the Bill would address international surrogacy in terms of legislative provisions. However, if the sequencing of events and proposals coming forward were to line up, the Bill could be used as a vehicle for whatever proposals may be brought forward in a legislative capacity. However, the initial intent of the AHR Bill was not to address the international surrogacy piece. Therefore, in the context of the special rapporteur’s report, as well as in the context of some of the other recommendations that were specific to domestic surrogacy and other aspects of AHR, all of those have been considered. A number of those recommendations have been taken on board in the time between the publication of the general scheme of the Bill back in 2017 and the final version of the Bill that was published this year.