Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am a member of the special committee that was established to make recommendations on legislating for international surrogacy. We are working hard to a really tight timeframe to make that happen. In our committee room, stories have been shared and tears have been shed. We have heard from legal experts, international experts, researchers, psychologists and medics, and we have heard the extremely personal stories of families who are family because of surrogacy, of children, now adults, who were born through surrogacy and of women who have given the gift of life to other families. Yesterday, however, those stories, those tears, that hard work and those expert witnesses were all undermined by a single Seanad contribution by the Minister for Health. Can the Minister, on the record of the Dáil, confirm the Government’s commitment to legislating for international surrogacy?

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