Call for egg donors should be paid

The medical director of one of the country’s main fertility clinics has said it is time to end "muddled thinking" on egg donation and pay donors.

Dr John Waterstone, medical director of Cork Fertility Centre, made his comments ahead of an international egg donation seminar in Cork this weekend.

The free seminar at the River Lee Hotel will focus on egg donation, the process in which the eggs of a younger woman are substituted for the woman’s own eggs.