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- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)
Sharon Keogan: Could the Senator speak to the amendment?
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I am disappointed to hear the Minister of State will not accept the amendment.Not only do some want to see protestors thrown into jail, they also seem to want to get money out of them as well. It is an absolute disgrace this amendment will not be accepted. None of the amendments have been accepted today. I thank my staff, my colleagues for supporting me in tabling these amendments, and the...
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)
Sharon Keogan: Vótáil.
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)
Sharon Keogan: Not agreed.
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)
Sharon Keogan: Votáil.
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)
Sharon Keogan: Vótáil.
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)
Sharon Keogan: It is closing the debate down on a Thursday afternoon.
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)
Sharon Keogan: That is a very serious allegation.
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)
Sharon Keogan: To suggest that anybody in the Chamber is associated-----
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I thank the Acting Chairperson and the Minister of State for being patient with my amendments. I thank my colleagues. It takes work as an Independent to table amendments. All of the arguments I have made today in favour of the amendments are valid. They certainly were not made to run down the clock. I take my work very seriously. My only issue is to protect the right to assembly, the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I thank Ms O'Keeffe, Mr. Duff and Professor O'Mahony. I find this a very emotive subject, to be quite honest. I have done a little bit of investigating into this and significant research over the past couple of months. Surrogacy is prohibited in many of our European countries. It is legal in the United Kingdom and Greece, as long as it is done on a non-commercial basis. Ukraine, along...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)
Sharon Keogan: The questions are coming.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I have his statement here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I beg your pardon. I must say that I find what I see as a challenge to traditional parenthood to be very exploitative and uncomfortable. The children are the victims here. We do not want them to be victimised or called the ghost children and not to be recognised here in this State. That is definitely an issue. What matters is the child. The child is very much wanted and respected as an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)
Sharon Keogan: Yes, they were directed to Mr. O'Connor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)
Sharon Keogan: A paragraph from Mr. Duff's opening statement is not included in the copy of the statement that the committee received. I refer to the part on future policy development and learning from our past. I ask Mr. Duff to repeat that paragraph.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I ask Mr. Duff to repeat that paragraph again. It follows the paragraph that finishes: "As a Department that is at the forefront on legislating to address the State’s failing in the past, it is incumbent on us that we use the learnings from the past to inform our thinking on future policy development." The next paragraph is not included in the statement that the committee received.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I thought I heard Mr. Duff say something else in relation to people's concerns that was not in the statement that he read out. That is fine. I obviously misheard him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)
Sharon Keogan: My question is for Mr. Duff. The Department obviously has concerns in regard to measures to ensure the rights and welfare of the surrogate mother are protected and respected. What would those measures be? What would they look like? How can the surrogate mother be protected?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)
Sharon Keogan: How can the Department do that? How is it physically able to do that if the surrogacy takes place outside the jurisdiction?