Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In my view, going so far as to ban referrals at this stage is a step too far. That is aside from the fact that the prohibition in this amendment is so phrased that if intending parents are referred to a facility that provides anonymous gamete services - and we must remember that many of them provide anonymous and non-anonymous services, which is another factor - the operator will commit an offence even if the referral is not in order to receive services using anonymous gametes.In other words, the same would apply if the referral had been referred for non-anonymous gametes. I cannot accept the amendment.