Statement by the Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition in response to the announcement of the Special Joint Oireachtas Committee on Surrogacy.

The members of the Coalition, namely the National Infertility Support and Information Group, Irish Families Through Surrogacy, Irish Gay Dads, Rainbow Family Equality Network, Independent Living Movement Ireland, Equality for Children, and LGBT Ireland welcome the Government announcement of the establishment of a Special Joint Oireachtas Committee to consider options providing an adequate legal framework that includes retrospective provisions, to support and protect the rights of children born through surrogacy.

Joint press release from Equality for Children and Irish Families Through Surrogacy. Irish Families Through Surrogacy and Equality for Children are extremely concerned to read Daniel Murray’s Sunday Business Post article yesterday on 17.10.21. In this article he stated that the Government will be deferring legislating for international surrogacy because of potential legal difficulties…

Equality for Children welcomes today’s report from Special Rapporteur for Children “A Review of Children’s Rights and Best Interests in the Context of Donor Assisted Human Reproduction and Surrogacy in Irish Law” and calls on the Government to adopt all of the recommendations with immediate effect.

Equality for Children celebrate the first female same-sex couple to be recognised on their children’s birth certificates from birth and call on Government to publish report.