Dáil debates

Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages

 

4:30 pm

Photo of Róisín ShortallRóisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The very fact that the Minister is saying he will look at it again in three year's time indicates uncertainty about what is being proposed. The two provisions I have referred to are very vague. If the surrogate mother consents to the child being cared for by the intending parents, who does she consent to and who oversees that? If she changes her mind, and she may do this a number of times, it puts the child in a very difficult and precarious situation legally. If that continues for some time, who actually then enforces the arrangement? Rather than having a vague situation like that there, if the Minister is not going to provide for a body or an agency to oversee that, it is better not to have it there at all.

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