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Leading medical experts have warned about the sale of many "meaningless" and "dangerous" additional fertility treatments being sold on the Irish market.
It follows a surge in the number of so-called add-ons being promoted to people who need medical help to have a baby, with claims that these additional treatments can boost their chances of becoming pregnant.
As part of RTÉ Investigates programme - Fertility Uncovered - to be broadcast tonight, undercover researchers filmed at this year's Future Fertility Show in Dublin, a consumer information event advertised as bringing together global fertility experts and local and international fertility clinics.
At the show, they encountered the widespread promotion of add-on treatments.
Dr Tim Child, associate professor of reproductive medicine at the University of Oxford, said: "The problem is that many or most of these add-ons have very little, if any, evidence or data backing up to show that they increase, for instance, the live birth rate, despite perhaps companies or clinics claiming that they do and charging for them."
Dr Child sits on the board of the UK’s independent regulator for...