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Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Potential Double Standards in Protections for Surrogate Mothers in Domestic Arrangements: Discussion (26 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their interesting and helpful information. Every week we come in here and want to learn and up our game just a little bit more, so it is very good to have such expertise in front of us. Dr. Tobin and Professor Madden clearly highlighted the double standards we could be enshrining in our law, were we to continue the way we are going at the minute....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Potential Double Standards in Protections for Surrogate Mothers in Domestic Arrangements: Discussion (26 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Perfect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Potential Double Standards in Protections for Surrogate Mothers in Domestic Arrangements: Discussion (26 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Yes. My apologies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Potential Double Standards in Protections for Surrogate Mothers in Domestic Arrangements: Discussion (26 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Following on from what Senator Ruane spoke about, I have a very simple question: is uncompensated surrogacy unethical? Every single person in the process is getting paid: the doctors, the solicitors - everyone. I have four children. It is not easy. Is it unethical to expect a woman to do that, to be all virtuous, all grace and all love and to give all that for someone else just out of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: The Verona Principles: International Social Service (26 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I thank Ms Woellenstein for her important contribution today. We have skirted round her organisation and looked at the Verona principles. It is great to have Ms Woellenstein in front of us today. They are important principles and they have not come by accident. They have come with great research and deliberation. It is important that we take them into serious consideration and work...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Qualifications Recognition (25 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Before the Minister of State responds, I am under strict instructions from Senator Clifford-Lee to give a warm welcome to very important guests in the Visitors Gallery, the students from Ardgillan Community College in Balbriggan and their teachers, Mr. Walsh and Ms McGuinness. You are very welcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Employment and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: The witnesses are welcome. Of all the topics we discuss at the Joint Committee on Disability Matters, employment is the one that gets me the most because it crosses everything. It is about valuing yourself. As someone who was out of work and looking for a job for a long time, I know it gets you down and makes you feel you are not there and not at the races. To use the word they use now,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Ms de Boer-Buquicchio is very welcome. Her contribution was really interesting and important. It is beginning to frame in my mind where the regulations need to begin and how we start to control and to properly safeguard international surrogacy, as well as surrogacy in general. Ms de Boer-Buquicchio’s raised the point about the pre-birth transfer and whether there is any compensation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Chair. Everyone is so welcome. This morning's meeting has been so positive and we do not often say that so I am grateful for all our guests' very positive contributions. An awful lot of stuff I was looking at has been covered. Birth certificates were mentioned and Ms Roberts has clearly illustrated that. What struck me from her contribution was the undermining of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I was not asking if one would feel better if genetically linked to one's mother but more about having another party involved if one was conceived by donor egg. I apologise as I did not explain that properly. Having listened to our guests, their experiences have been improved and added to from having half-siblings. They have had a positive experience. Mine was a probing question on that....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: That is the answer I was expecting.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I have a question. Regarding the genetic relative, is it not very important for the illegally registered people who have no files that it is necessary to have the genetic link in the Bill? I am seeking clarity there. The genetic part is very important for the illegally registered.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Following on from Senator Seery Kearney's comments, including the term "illegal" in the legislation would set a really high bar. All of us would love to see people being held to account for all of these wrongs. I do not believe anybody in this House would say that someone who illegally registered births should not be held accountable. Amendment No. 14 proposes a list of cases that would be...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I would like to speak about the issue of illegality. In law, the term "illegal" is the end point. Something is deemed illegal at the end point in a court of law. To pre-empt something as illegal is to predetermine a judgment. Is it not the case that the term “false and misleading” is already in our legislation under the Civil Registration Act? That is just the term that is...

Seanad: Childcare Provision: Statements (17 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: The Minister is very welcome to the House. It is great to have him here. He attended a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth earlier today. I listened to the proceedings. The Minister made a strong contribution on the Ukrainian crisis and I thank him for that. I welcome the opportunity to speak on childcare. We have to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Employment and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (12 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Our guests are very welcome. It is great to have them here. They might be familiar with my surname because my brother, Matthew McGreehan, is a very proud social farmer. Our family has been very committed to social farming for many years now. I am a major advocate for it. I heard Senator Flynn speak about dressing it up as unpaid labour, but social farming is so much more than the work...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Analysis of the Issues Paper (12 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I thank Professor O'Mahony. It is great to have him before the committee again. There is always a great level of clarity when he appears before the committee and I welcome that. I am grappling with all these legal issues, so forgive me. As unknown donors can become known donors through DNA, it is important to sever those rights. Where do we sever those rights? There is a dispute in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Analysis of the Issues Paper (12 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I thank Professor O'Mahony. That is great.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: There are an awful lot of issues I would like to discuss but I will raise a local issue this morning regarding Irish Water. The people of the Cooley Peninsula have been struggling with water pressure. I have been ignored by Irish Water for nearly two years now. I am not getting any help or assistance and have been gaslit, which I suppose is the popular word, by the organisation, which told...