Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 15:

In page 16, lines 15 to 21, to delete all words from and including “(1) This” in line 15 down to and including line 21 and substitute the following:"(1) A person, being the husband, civil partner or cohabitant of the intending mother concerned, consents under this section to be the parent, under section 5(1)(b), of a child born as a result of a DAHR procedure where, before that procedure is performed-—”.

This is a technical amendment to streamline sections 11(1) and 11(2) and better focus the provision on who, under that section, may consent to be a parent of a child born through donor-assisted human reproduction. Only the husband, civil partner or cohabitant of the intending mother may jointly be a parent with her of the child born as a result of donor-assisted human reproduction.

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