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- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Rónán Mullen: I will not speak on each of them at any great length. The second amendment-----
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Rónán Mullen: It is clear from what I am saying I do not think we should be starting from here-----
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Rónán Mullen: What I am trying to indicate is that if donor-assisted human production is introduced, with all of its injustices, surely a child should have two parents who are in a committed legal relationship with each other. This, I say to Senator Power, is why it is relevant. If one looks at the law in this area in Germany, Austria, Italy, France and Switzerland, they all require that couples have a...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Rónán Mullen: Stability given by a committed relationship is the least that children deserve.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Rónán Mullen: We are discussing amendment No. 2, which proposes to delete "civil partner or cohabitant, as the case may be,". An alternative amendment proposes that a child born as a result of a donor-assisted human reproduction procedure shall have two parents. Will the Acting Chairman assist me again? Which amendments are in this group?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Rónán Mullen: I think one of those amendments is Senator Walsh's. Very briefly, amendment No. 26 says that a person shall not perform a DAHR procedure other than at the request of the intending parents who are legally married to one another. Section 27-----
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Rónán Mullen: Amendment No. 27 says that a person shall not perform a DAHR procedure other than at the request of intending parents who are legally married to one another, in a civil partnership with one another or in a co-habiting relationship with one another. These are alternatives. Any of these would be less bad than the free-for-all that the Bill proposes. I have set out reasonably and as cursorily...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Rónán Mullen: I will not address the Minister's final point now. I will deal with it when we reach the relevant amendment. I was particularly taken by something the Minister said during her contribution. Any use of the comparison with illegitimacy or with the concept thereof is completely misconceived. To suggest that restricting DAHR to married couples is tantamount to calling donor-assisted children...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Rónán Mullen: On a point of order, I hate to do this to Senator Power - whom I like on a personal level - but perhaps she might address her comments through the Chair.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Rónán Mullen: No.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 3: In page 13, to delete lines 6 to 8 and substitute the following:"(2) A child born as a result of a DAHR procedure shall have two parents."I will withdraw this amendment.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Rónán Mullen: Yes.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Rónán Mullen: Are we discussing amendments Nos. 4 and 6 together?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Rónán Mullen: I have a few words to say about amendment No. 6. The purpose of the amendment requires the provision of appropriate documentation whereby the donor of the gametes certifies having received independent counselling. The Minister sought to address it but not in a satisfactory way. There is a sense in which we cannot legislate in an extrajudicial fashion but we can certainly legislate to...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Rónán Mullen: That is what it is. The potential exists for people who are really not at a mature stage of their lives to donate gametes. If they do so, it could come back to haunt them, as they will see it, at a future date. In my view, this is something socially destructive because it contributes to the separation of a child from the love and society of one of his or her natural parents. At the very...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Rónán Mullen: The Senator should tell the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine that we cannot have certification.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Rónán Mullen: In relation to amendment No. 6, yes.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Rónán Mullen: Yes.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 5: In page 14, line 4, to delete "18 years" and substitute "21 years".I will be brief because I adverted to this proposal previously. Part of the problem here is that there is a complete mentality of contract around how donor gametes are being viewed in this legislation. We need to consider the ramifications of donating one's gametes without knowing with whose other...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Rónán Mullen: In light of Senator Healy Eames's very pertinent point, I am very disappointed about that response from the Minister. The Senator is absolutely right in making the point about equality and the fact that an intending mother must be at least 21 years of age. The difference between the two minimum age requirements is perhaps explained by the emphasis the industry places on getting students to...