Michael Harty (Clare, Independent)
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On the problems that exist for children in Ireland today and there are huge problems, children who are brought up in families of their genetic parents experience the most horrendous abuse and unhappiness in Ireland. We have people living in emergency accommodation who are not being treated properly and we have a situation in our child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, where there are waiting lists for children to be seen to have their unhappiness assessed. In the context of unhappiness in children, one must look at this as a component of it but there are so many other components of children's unhappiness in Ireland that are not being addressed by our State. Of course there may be unhappiness in relation to finding out that one was a product of assisted human reproduction but there are so many other social reasons for being unhappy in Ireland that it is probably not a priority issue.