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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. 138: In page 59, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “(e) the order does not affect any order previously made under section 35 of the Status of Children Act 1987 in respect of an intending parent of the child.”.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 139: In page 59, line 33, to delete “commencment” and substitute “commencement”

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 140: In page 60, lines 16 and 17, to delete “update or correct the information, as the case may be, without delay,” and substitute “, without delay, update or correct the information, as the case may be,”

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 141: In page 62, to delete lines 5 to 7. These amendments, in combination, remove the requirement for surrogate mothers, donors or intending parents to be notified of an application seeking identifying information about them that has been submitted by a relevant person, that is, a child born as a result of a domestic surrogacy agreement. This requirement is being...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I probably have a different note from the one the Deputy has. In mine, it is specifically just lines 5 and 7, and then lines 20 and 21 on page 62 of the Bill.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I just have amendments Nos. 141 and 143.

Paediatric Orthopaedic and Urology Services: Motion [Private Members] (20 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "recognises that: — waiting lists for spinal surgery remain too long, despite an increase in the number of procedures carried out in recent years; and — the Government is committed to improving the waiting time for children seeking care; notes that: — the...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Except for us, a Cheann Comhairle. I am very pleased to introduce the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024 to the Dáil. The legislation has three main aims. First, it will provide for an exemption of rent-a-room income of up to €14,000 per annum to be disregarded from the medical card and the GP visit card income assessment process. Second, it amends current...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The Deputy has strayed nowhere near the Bill, which I am not complaining about. He has raised an issue that is causing a lot of concern. I know we are about to adjourn the debate, but if it were possible to stretch the order to respond to that point, it would be very helpful because there is a lot of worry around the country based on incorrect information.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Or even 30 seconds, if it is in order.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Thank you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I appreciate your flexibility on this. I was made aware of the issue raised by Deputy Ó Murchú yesterday. A policy measure has been proposed in terms of supports for people who have had mastectomies. The proposal emanating from the HSE was that in some areas, supports would increase but in some areas, supports would decrease. I am not...

Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I am advised that the Leas-Cheann Comhairle has been given a note on this and is facilitating it. A number of incorrect cross-references are contained in the Bill which are the result of a technical IT error.

Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I appreciate her facilitating this. I am seeking to invoke Dáil Standing Order 196 and request that the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, as Chair, direct the clerk to carry through the necessary corrections. They are purely technical. They are as follows: the reference to "section 52(2)" on page 8, line 10, should read ‘"sections 39(2)(b)"; "section...

Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: No doubt.

Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I will come to the amendments immediately, but I would like to acknowledge some of the people we have in the Gallery with us this evening. We have six-year-old Ally Whitson from Dublin. Ally received a life-saving kidney transplant from her dad when she was four. She was on nightly dialysis for 13 hours a night for two years. I met Ally and her mum, Michelle, earlier on, and I want to...

Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As flagged during Report Stage in this House, I brought forward a number of amendments in the Seanad to align the Human Tissue Bill with the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. These amendments include the insertion of definitions including: “Act of 2015” to refer to the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015; “capacity”, which will be construed in...

Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: These are technical amendments which rephrase provisions for clarity or update incorrect references to other provisions. They will have no material impact on the provisions of the Bill.

Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: These are technical amendments which update previously incomplete references to “regenerative tissue” to that of “regenerative tissues and cells”, a term already defined within the Human Tissue Bill.

Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: These are technical amendments to update references to the Bill that are being inserted into the Coroners Acts. The Bill was previously referred to as the “Act of 2023” and these references are being updated and replaced by the short Title of the Bill. These amendments will have no material impact on the provisions of either piece of legislation.