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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...

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: 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...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jun 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the ambassador to the House. I offer my deepest condolences on the death of former Senator Jackman. I support Senator Ó Donnghaile about having a passport office in Belfast. Belfast is the second city on this island and it should have a passport office. I have supported this for many years. I concur with all the Senator's comments. I want to highlight rural Ireland at its...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Like Senator Seery Kearney, I welcome the concept of the amendment. We have worked with many people through pre-legislative scrutiny and all of our work on the Bill. It would be incredible to think there is no step beyond simply saying there is no birth certificate. A process, procedure, advice and somewhere to go to be able to gain more access or increased access to who one is, where one...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Erin McGreehan: At the committee we spoke at length about this section and the fact that the information session was going to be mandatory. In a perfect world none of this would be necessary and we would not have to work within the realms of our awful history. I would agree with Senator Seery Kearney about registered letters. In the opinion of most lay people, a registered letter makes common sense....

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Erin McGreehan: That is democracy.

Seanad: Protection of the Native Irish Honey Bee Bill 2021: Second Stage (2 Jun 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I have so much to say about this and I am very excited that we are at this point. I congratulate Senator Martin for his work on this Bill. I am a proud member of the Native Irish Honey Bee Society. I love to get its booklets and information every month because it is something I am passionate about. A very positive form of nationalism is ecological nationalism. We can really work to look...

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.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (26 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I apologise for not being here earlier; I was at a different committee meeting. I have read the opening statements. I do not want to go over questions that might have been asked so I will make more of a comment. It was depressing reading all the statements. It seems relentless. Every time people like the witnesses come in here, we feel we have such an uphill battle of unmet needs. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: It is a real pleasure to have Mr. O'Connor here and to listen to him. As Deputy Brendan Smith said, I hope this is being written down. I am from north Louth and I never thought that the Good Friday Agreement would happen. I remember sitting in my history class in Bush Post Primary School discussing this. There were only four of us in our history class and we had a little liberty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: We used discuss this and see how was it we were to make an agreement and was it possible. I was a stanch Fianna Fáiler but I did not think it would be possible. I remember sitting, talking to Mr. McGoey, thinking that we were not doing it. Then it did-----