Surrogacy

International surrogacy should be allowed under specific conditions ⁠— Oireachtas committee

The 12-week Special Committee on International Surrogacy was established as the government was struggling to legislate around difficult legal and ethical issues

The use of international surrogacy by Irish couples should be facilitated under specific conditions, a special Oireachtas committee has recommended in a newly published report.

Parents of children born through international surrogacy have been campaigning in Ireland for a legal route to full parentage rights under Irish law, which currently the non-birth mother or non-genetic father doesn’t have access to.

The Business Post first revealed that the 12-week Special Committee on International Surrogacy would have ...