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- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 107: In page 51, line 27, to delete “under” and substitute “pursuant to”.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 108: In page 51, to delete lines 35 and 36 and substitute the following: “(2) (a) A surrogacy agreement is not a permitted surrogacy if the surrogate mother has, before entering into such agreement, been a surrogate mother upon more than one occasion, and where on at least two such occasions a pregnancy was achieved. (b) In paragraph (a),...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank colleagues for their amendments and contributions. We have discussed this at length and there is no right answer to this that I can find. I asked exactly the same questions. Is it two viable pregnancies? Is it two births? Is it after the first trimester? Why are we coming down on this? The rationale provided by the teams of officials who put this together is that it is for...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I am happy to take a look at that. Deputy Shortall may be right. If we are broadly agreed that by "clinical pregnancy", we are talking about five weeks - at least that is the advice I have - that is something we can look at. I am making the point that there is no right answer here. It is really around protecting the surrogate. One of the points made to me by some of the advocacy groups,...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: We will take a look at the legal standing of that.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 111: In page 52, line 3, to delete "An" and substitute "Any".
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 112: In page 52, to delete lines 14 to 28, and substitute the following: “(c)involve the following, as appropriate: (i)in the case of a male and a female as the intending parents— (I)the female is unable to conceive a child, including as a result of the provision (including the potential provision) of AHR treatment, (II)the female is unable...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Amendment No. 112 seeks to clarify and expand further on the circumstances in which a surrogate agreement can be approved for different groups of intending parents. Specifically, the proposed new paragraph essentially sets out how an applicant can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the AHRRA that surrogacy is effectively the only route by which they can have a child. Therefore, for...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: There was also, after "treatment", to insert "for uterine reasons". It was the other wording Deputy Shortall was putting in.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Deputy Gino Kenny has the same amendments tabled.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The advice I am taking on this is legalistic and medical rather than from a policy perspective. I am aware that there is some disagreement about the exact definition of the term "conceive". The advice I have is that the meaning of the term "bear" is more open to different interpretations. To bear a child can be considered to actually give birth but it can also be seen as the support or...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 117: In page 52, to delete lines 29 to 33 and substitute the following: “(4) The intending parents (or, in the case of a single intending parent, that intending parent) shall give an undertaking in the specified form, before the section 51 application concerned is made, that he or she shall— (a) take all necessary steps to provide care and protection,...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 119: In page 53, line 11, to delete “or agrees to receive, make or give” and substitute “, or agrees to receive, make or give,”.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Sorry, it is grouped and will be later. I beg the Chair's pardon.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 122: In page 54, line 21, after “housework” to insert “or childcare”.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. This is essentially Deputy Cullinane's amendment and he and Deputy Shortall make a good point about the word "net" and that there are all of these moving bits and we do not want to inadvertently have people losing out by not being eligible or where there is a taxation issue, for example. Therefore, I have asked the officials to consider the potential for including the...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. We will certainly do that.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: If the Cathaoirleach wants to go back to Deputy Cullinane's amendment, if that is in order, I will be happy to do so.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: We have moved on to amendment No. 122, but if it is in order to go back-----