Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Mary Seery KearneyMary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is slightly left of field, so it is okay for the witnesses to say they will come back to me. An area which I do a lot of work in is with regard to surrogacy, fertility and all of that. I have an eye on the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022, which will hopefully become an Act before the summer. I have had a number of contacts from around the country from families of prisoners, where a person is in for a long sentence, and consequently family planning does not happen in that context. There are trauma repercussions on the family, in terms of worrying about the relationship being maintained. Those are the sorts of consequences. It is something I would like to follow up with the witnesses outside of this. Where are the witnesses on that? I am trying to not ask anything too specific.

Does that come into it? Where is the IPS on that? I am trying not to ask anything too specific. Does that come into consideration? If it does, where?

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