Groundbreaking legislation to regulate surrogacy and fertility clinics passed almost 20 years after first mooted

The Bill also provides for and will regulate domestic and international surrogacy, where one parent has a genetic link to the child. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

Passed by the Dáil last month and in the Seanad on Wednesday, the Bill establishes the Assisted Human Reproduction Regulatory Authority which will license fertility clinics and oversee and enforce statutory provisions regarding gamete and embryo storage, research and testing. Fine Gael Senator Mary Seery Kearney, a mother through surrogacy, welcomed the passage of the legislation and said that it would give certainty for families, including her own, who have waited a long time for legal recognition of their parent-child relationships.

“Ireland is now the first country to legislate for a framework that enshrines the Verona Principles, which are internationally recognised and set out by the International Social Services organisation, a UN recognised organisation, which ensures that an ethical surrogacy is undertaken in the best interests of any child or children born.

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