Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I understand why the amendments were tabled but I reiterate what I said. This is a very marginal protection and safeguard that provides that, if intending parents go to a medical practitioner and say they are intending to proceed with a non-permitted surrogacy and want his or her medical help in proceeding with that, the medical practitioner will not be able to do that. The intending parents will need to be compliant with the strictures we are putting in place. I have a lot of sympathy for the points being made but, again, we are legislating for something other countries have not done. We need to have safeguards in place, and what is in place for medical practitioners is very specific, relating to knowingly facilitating a non-permitted surrogacy.

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