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Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: Perhaps the matter can be passed on to the Leader.

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: No, I am just opposing it.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 2: In page 13, line 5, to delete “, civil partner or cohabitant, as the case may be,”.As will be clear to people who have looked at the amendments, the approach that Senator Quinn and I have taken is that we are opposed to all of the provisions on donor-assisted human reproduction because we believe that all of those provisions are replete with injustices...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: The Minister has had much more consultation, I would aver and I would be bound, with the fertility industry than she has with people who have deep concerns about the legislation. I would like to know whether the Minister has actually had a one-on-one meeting with anyone who is concerned about where the Government is going on this. I would love if she had met Dr. Joanna Rose; perhaps she...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I stated that the legislation declares that a donor is not the parent of a child born as a result of that procedure and has no parental rights and duties in respect of the child. I suggest that the majority of Irish people would be appalled by this notion. These issues should be addressed in the context of a Bill purporting to regulate the assisted human reproduction industry and should not...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: Everything here is being subjected to the exigencies of a referendum, which is why this is being rushed through like an express train or, as somebody said to me the other day, more like a dose of salts. If we had any respect for the electorate and the Oireachtas we would not allow something so cursory on something so fundamental. I mentioned Dr. Joanna Rose. She is regularly told she...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I will get them for Senator Norris.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: Suppose one took a baby away from a parent and said to the adult, "Never mind; you will be able to find out her name and some selected details in 18 years' time." People would be rightly outraged, but through reproductive technology we bring children deliberately into the world in a way that is designed to separate them from ever having a parental relationship with either their genetic...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: Senator Power may not have been here when I said I would make one general set of comments-----

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: -----and I would not be making speeches after that.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: This is something I never do to colleagues. I never engage in this type of obstruction.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: We will all get our say. My say will be short. I do not have much to say on the two amendments-----

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...