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‘Pre-clearance’ process planned for those availing of surrogacy

Assisted Human Reproduction Bill will have a surrogacy section, but role of international surrogacy agencies remains a stumbling block

Assisted reproduction bill may only deal with retrospective international surrogacy cases

The Irish government has struggled to come up with a framework that ethically addresses that parentage issue without endorsing and facilitating international commercial 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

Expert says Oireachtas international surrogacy committee is being ‘rushed’

Brian Tobin, deputy head of the School of Law in NUI Galway, has warned that the issue is a ‘legal minefield’

Almost all Irish surrogacies now taking place in Ukraine

New figures show that the east European country has become the location of choice for Irish couples hoping to avail of a commercial surrogacy arrangement

How planned Irish legislation has exposed the ethical dilemma at the heart of the Ukrainian surrogate baby route taken by Irish couples

Since 2016, almost all Irish surrogate pregnancies have taken place in Ukraine, leading many to question the legal and ethical implications of doing so in an impoverished and poorly regulated country

‘Unavoidable’ that Irish couples will continue using international surrogacy services

Conor O’Mahony says it is ‘imperative’ that legislation gives a route to full legal parentage for those who use international surrogacy arrangements

Senator cautions intending parents about Ukraine surrogacy

Concerns mount about the safety of current surrogate mothers and babies and access to the country due to the Russian military build-up on the border

AG says commodification of children is a concern in international surrogacy

Paper prepared for special Oireachtas committee challenges findings of report by Special Rapporteur on Child Protection

Special diplomatic assistance offered to 14 Irish couples expecting babies born through surrogates in Ukraine

Russian military build-up on the Ukrainian border has led to serious concerns for the safety of the surrogate mothers, the babies, and the ability of Irish couples to travel in and out of the country

Advocates to present request to Dáil for bill to include international surrogacy

Groups will present a letter to government amid reports that assisted reproduction law will apply only to ‘domestic, altruistic surrogacy’

Committee proposed to study issues surrounding international surrogacy

Complex ethical and legal issues that were holding up progress of the legislation are instead to be teased out by a joint Oireachtas committee

Advocacy groups ‘extremely concerned’ by reports of delay in legislation for international surrogacy services

Irish Families Through Surrogacy and Equality for Children were responding to a Business Post report that the government is looking to separate out international surrogacy elements from the forthcoming Assisted Human Reproduction Bill

Government to defer legislating for international surrogacy services

The forthcoming assisted human reproduction bill will have no international dimension because of potential legal difficulties

New laws promised to protect rights of children and parents in international surrogacy

The government is hopeful of introducing a regulatory framework having accepted that the practice is being availed of by Irish citizens already

Surrogacy law must put the best interests of children at its heart

We are at a point where Ireland can produce a piece of legislation that respects parents and children in this situation, and we have to get it right

‘As the surrogate, legally I had every right to walk out of the hospital with that baby’

A long-awaited bill, which is due to be published this autumn, will for the first time create a regulatory framework around surrogacy and IVF in Ireland but behind the scenes, the legislation has run into trouble