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

David Stanton: I call Senator Fidelma Healy Eames who is most welcome. I just wish to notify her that we proceed on the basis of asking a question, obtaining an answer and so on.

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

David Stanton: A question, please, Senator.

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

David Stanton: That was supposed to be an anonymous issue but would Dr. Shannon like to comment on that?

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

David Stanton: I ask members to ensure we have only one discussion at a time.

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

David Stanton: I thank our guests for their patience and time. I have one final question. Where an embryo is being donated and surrogacy is being used, is that covered in the Bill or is that something about which we should be concerned?

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

David Stanton: I thank Dr. Wingfield for that reply. We have completed our questions for the moment. It is a very complex, interesting and important area. On behalf of the committee, I thank our guests for their engagement with it on this topic. Our next session on this topic will be at 2 p.m. today. I propose we suspend until 11.30 a.m. when we will resume in private session to deal with some other...

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

David Stanton: We will resume our discussion with some of those who have made written submissions on the heads of the children and family relationships Bill. On behalf of the joint committee, I am very pleased to welcome Dr. Deirdre Madden from UCC; Ms Margaret Dromey and Ms Margot Doherty from Treoir; Dr. Thomas Finegan and Ms Marion Boteju from Family and Life; Dr. Fergus Ryan and Ms Sandra Irwin-Gowran...

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

David Stanton: I thank Dr. Madden for being concise and staying within the allotted time. I now invite Ms Dromey to make her opening remarks.

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

David Stanton: The time is a little tight.

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

David Stanton: I must point out that we are dealing with the heads of the Bill and not the Bill itself. It is the general scheme of the Bill, as the Bill has not been published yet. This new procedure in which we are involved is pre-legislative scrutiny, whereby we get an outline of what is being proposed. That gives everybody who is interested input into the legislation, and the mechanism for doing that...

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

David Stanton: If there is a phone or any other device on, please turn it off now, or I will have to ask people to leave the room.

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

David Stanton: Has Dr. Finegan circulated that particular document to us because we seem to have something different here?

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

David Stanton: It is usual that one circulates the presentation so that members would have it in front of them and could refer to it if they are asking questions.

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

David Stanton: We do not seem to have that document. At least, I do not anyway. Who is next?

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

David Stanton: What Ms Brady read out is slightly different from what is contained in her submission.

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

David Stanton: Perhaps she could forward to us what she read out. The other delegates should do likewise if their submissions are different from what they intend to read out. Sometimes the written submissions sent to us cannot be read out in five minutes. It helps if we have the actual statements in front of us.

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

David Stanton: Is Ms Tinsley almost finished? Her time is almost up.

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

David Stanton: I thank Mr. Merriman for his precise presentation and for keeping to the time.

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

David Stanton: There is a phone on. Could the person concerned please turn the phone off or leave the room?

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

David Stanton: I thank Ms Griffith for staying within the time. We will now move on to a question and answer session with members. Could I impress on members that we do not want speeches? If somebody wants to make a speech, they can go into the Dáil or Seanad and make it there. This is an opportunity to engage with our guests today so I ask people to ask focused short questions. They should ask...