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- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is there?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I accept that.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is-----
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I want to hear that from the Minister.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator was asked by Senator Susan O'Keeffe to specify.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am happy with quite a lot of what the Minister has stated in response to my amendment which I tabled to seek the clarification she has offered to me. My amendments, supported by Senator Feargal Quinn, seek to ensure all family types would be discussed and offered as part as the adoption assessment process. I wish to clarify that the birth mother's preference as to family type would be...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I will consider it over the weekend and perhaps table it on Report Stage.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What is wrong with God?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The ruling of the Chair to the effect that nobody's name should be mentioned is ridiculous because to make a substantive point, one should be able to cite a source. Those reading the Official Report in the years to come will see these points being made without any substantiation. That is very poor practice.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I accept that making disparaging remarks about each other is out of order, but I ask the House to revisit that ruling. I was thinking about this Bill over the weekend. It covers six main areas of law and is significant legislation. For the first time in this country, it sets up a donor assisted human reproduction, DAHR, industry. This should have been provided for in a separate Bill. How...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am speaking about DAHR.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes, I am.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am angry and annoyed because of the deception involved. There should be a stand-alone Bill to take care of DAHR for two parents.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Ideally for two parents. Everything we are doing is supposed to be in the best interests of the child. If we are acting in the best interests of the child, we will do our best to give him or her a mother and a father. That is in his or her best interests. I am not saying that is always practicable, but it is in the best interests of the child. It is not right to say biology does not...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: No.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: They have everything to do with the amendment. We are discussing DAHR.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: No, but I am only speaking about the importance of parenting.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am speaking about the importance of having genetic parents, where possible. I think I have made my points.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I will conclude. I thank the Senator for the prompt. I would be grateful if the Minister explained why we do not have a stand-alone Bill.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, I would like the Senator to speak about how this would extinguish children's rights.