Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

That mother cannot remove that right of being the mother. One cannot quench the fact that one has ever been a mother in this world. It leaves that child in a legal limbo. I am speaking off the top of my head and I am not a legal person. If one is talking about the real father of the child and the wife of the father, I assume they would get legal advice on the basis of guardianship. I am not sure whether that stands up. Equally, there could be a issue in five or ten years as the birth mother may come back and look for that child.