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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Ulster Bank (8 Apr 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Obviously, I agree with Mr. Brown on that. I am not talking about 70, I am talking about past life expectancy, into their early eighties.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Ulster Bank (8 Apr 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: How many of the solutions proposed to clients are short-term arrangements, that is, for one year or less?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Ulster Bank (8 Apr 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: How many solutions are for one year or less?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Ulster Bank (8 Apr 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: There is an element of meeting Central Bank criteria with six-month stuff that is really only kicking the can down the road.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Ulster Bank (8 Apr 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: One final question-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Ulster Bank (8 Apr 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Now that house prices are taking off again, what policies has Ulster Bank in place to ensure that reckless lending does not occur again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Ulster Bank (8 Apr 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: In terms of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014: Discussion (9 Apr 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Fantastic. I thank our guests for their presentations. I apologise that I was not present for them, but I followed them on a monitor elsewhere. The matter before the committee is a far-reaching item of proposed legislation which will have implications for Irish society into the future. I am delighted by Dr. Shannon's pronouncement to the effect that the right of identity is a key right....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014: Discussion (9 Apr 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: In view of the timeframe of the Bill, it would be useful, if possible, if the institute's position was known prior to its introduction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014: Discussion (9 Apr 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Okay. Dr. Wingfield mentioned that she wants provision for posthumous conception.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014: Discussion (9 Apr 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: How would that be compatible with the child's best interests?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014: Discussion (9 Apr 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Their parentage is known.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014: Discussion (9 Apr 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Dr. Wingfield mentioned she would like to water down the ban on advertising, yet she sees a need for adequate information and public awareness and that clinics should be allowed to inform potential surrogates and potential patients as to the availability of these services. Would this not effectively involve advertising since every woman of child-bearing age is a potential surrogate and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014: Discussion (9 Apr 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am hearing from Dr. Wingfield that we need to find a mechanism to do that without it being advertising.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014: Discussion (9 Apr 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Dr. Wingfield wants incentive payments for donors of gametes and embryos to ensure supply. Is this not treating the whole process as a commercial exchange?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014: Discussion (9 Apr 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Okay. Is there a danger then that this would wander into the commercial area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014: Discussion (9 Apr 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: A written submission by Dr. Joanne Rose was made to this committee, a copy of which I have got, and she is an adult conceived from donor conception. I would like any of our guests but particularly Dr. Shannon to comment on the points Dr. Rose made. She stated that kinship lost for reasons of child production turns our normal social and cultural values of the best interests of the child on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014: Discussion (9 Apr 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I have one final question for Dr. Tobin. He recognised in his submission that the provisions are adult-centric and do not accord sufficient weight to the constitutional rights of the child. He believes that head 10 may prove to be unconstitutional. He proposes a remedy, and I would question if it is in contradiction to this, namely, how is the right of a child to know his or her father,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014: Discussion (9 Apr 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I see.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014: Discussion (9 Apr 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am grateful for the opportunity to be present. I welcome the delegations. The documentation is daunting and I have many questions to ask. I am addressing my first question to Barnardos, the Children's Rights Alliance and Family and Life Alliance. In theory, we are all saying that the rights of the child are paramount. Bearing that in mind as our guiding principle, is it in the best...