Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 March 2015
Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage
9:30 am
Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
As the Deputy has said, subsection (2) specifies that a donor may ask the Minister to tell him or her how many people were born as a result of donations he or she made and the sex and year of birth of each such person. That is the extent of the information the donor can request. I intend to amend this section on Report Stage to oblige the Minister for Health to comply with a request for information from the national donor-conceived person register, subject to the provisions of sections 33 to 35, inclusive, and to provide that the donor of an embryo who has provided gametes used in that embryo will be able to request information on whether a child has been born as a result of the donation. I hope that clarifies matters.
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