Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 47:

In page 78, to delete lines 16 and 17 and substitute the following:

“(a) the law of the jurisdiction relating to surrogacy, including whether or not that law—

(i) permits a commercial surrogacy referred to in section 93, and

(ii) requires intending parents or one of them (or, in the case of a single intending parent, that intending parent) to be resident or domiciled in the jurisdiction;”.

This amendment adds a provision in respect of the matters which the regulatory authority should have regard when deciding whether to introduce jurisdiction onto the green list of approved surrogacy jurisdictions. This will require the authority to consider whether the jurisdiction requires intending parents in a surrogacy to reside in that jurisdiction. Broadly speaking, the provisions in Part 8 arraign the establishment of parentage in respect of children born to intending parents living in Ireland. The recognition by the State of parentage established in another jurisdiction and of children born in that jurisdiction to Irish citizens living there is a separate matter that I intend to deal with in the proposed amending Bill.

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