I have two amendments in this group. I will not be moving any of my amendments. They are merely there for discussion purposes. I flagged to the Minister's officials that this would be the case. Before I get into them, I will address a couple of things. There were a few chestnuts that were always predictable so let us nail those here and now. The first is the quotation from the Ukrainian ombudsman or special rapporteur. I will clarify that there was an attempt to contact that person and to bring him before the surro…

Jesus. Seriously.

With due respect, there are particular-----

Yes, there are, but for provocative statements-----

With due respect, I do not think the Gallery should be corrected on that.

Seriously.

On a point of order, we are in Seanad Éireann speaking about the people of the Republic of Ireland.

I do not care. It needs to be said. How dare the Senator be so trite and offensive, and be permitted to be so.

There is a smoke-and-mirrors casting of the situation, as it is proposed in the Bill, going on. For future surrogacies, we will have a regulatory authority that will look at all of the circumstances and get increasingly better as it moves on through the years, which is what I used to think and say about it. The more experience that regulatory authority gets, the better it will get at adjudicating, spotting and knowing where people should not go, because intending parents need to be minded. We will have a regulatory…

I am staying to the amendments. There has been an issue cast over people who may go to domestic surrogacy and a characterisation of anybody at international. These are the people who Senator Mullen is courting. On another day, he would not have anything to do with them. They just suit his twisted argument now in characterising everybody in a particular way. The two women who shared on that webinar are being exploited for this very argument of anti-surrogacy. They are being exploited. They should be supported and ca…

Hear, hear.

Hear, hear.

They are the Senator's friends from yesterday.

It was the Senator's friends from yesterday.

I will speak no further on this. Senator Mullen has done that enough.

I want to clarify one thing. My mother is in the Gallery. She made a fine job of rearing me, so I do not need any advice from anybody else. She did a really good job.

I commend Senator Ardagh on her Bill. I cannot see anyone not supporting it in its entirety. I have just come from the Committee on Autism's first year anniversary meeting, in which it listed its recommendations and the progress thereon. I want to first reflect on the fact that there is never a case here where a committee sits, produces a report and has a progress report a year on. That is fantastic. Many Members of this House participated in that committee. I pay particular tribute to Senator Carrigy, however. Any…

I welcome the Minister, Deputy McEntee.

We need to take a point of order, Senator.

You need to resume your seat while we deal with a point of order.