Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy

The Verona Principles: International Social Service

Mr. Jean Ayoub:

I will confirm what Ms Woellenstein has said. The principles were published in March of last year. Our approach has been to make them aspirational. We hope that more governments will take on the offer of turning these aspirational principles into procedures and articles of law and vote on them. I do not know of any government that has specifically asked for our advice on the Verona Principles and how to implement them in law. There might be some governments implementing them of which we are not aware.

I wish to add something about the consultation process. It was clear from our-----