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- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I was positing the situation that a convicted rapist might have a consensual relationship that might lead to a child and the mere fact that we do not yet sterilise convicted rapists. It is simply to make what really should be a much more obvious point, that the State has a right to apply certain tests and expect certain standards if its supportive apparatus is being called in aid of...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Is that in the Bill?
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: The Minister spoke about how it would be great if we could all reflect. That is why we should not be rushing Committee and Report Stages together so that we could actually reflect on what each other is saying. However, I must say the Minister’s logic does not stand up as to his reason for not accepting that earlier amendment about the sex abuser. In absolutely no way did the...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: This may help what the Minister sees as a straw man to become clearer. There is a time to be specific about requirements and not just to hope for the best. If right now people on the street were asked if a person assaults another person and leaves them unconscious on the street, should it be mandatory that some custodial sentence would be served, everybody would say that is a no-brainer....
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 16: In page 61, line 30, to delete “21 years” and substitute “25 years”.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: All of these sections are important and I have a couple of questions for the Minister. This is the section that sets out, in the context of domestic surrogacy, who may be intending parents. The section provides that a surrogacy agreement may be entered into by two intending parents, jointly, or by a single intending parent and that any intending parent shall have attained the age of 21...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: This does allow it through celibacy, now that you mention it. We have this bizarre situation where high-profile people have been able and enabled to have children through surrogacy. We have had the stories about wanting to bring them in from Ukraine in the context of the war and so on. All of that is stuff we can readily sympathise with, within the facts as they are. The problem is there...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
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- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I still am.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister for that important clarification.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Senator Ruane was not in the room. She has not been doing her homework.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: If she paid more attention, she might have a point to make.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: We are at 4 o'clock and the Minister still has not got to the contingency.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Most of the time we cannot even get one.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I wish everybody here well. Senator Keogan and I have sought to make the case that there is another side to this issue. The happiness of people here today will make other people sad as a result of the denial of human rights, the exploitation of surrogate women and the denial of certain children of their rights. Every child is welcome and nobody should ever be stigmatised. However, I...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: We have to respect each other's sincerity and the sincerity of each other's aspirations. When I used the term "those people", I always said it, as the Senator knows, with the deepest of respect for people, even when I disagreed with what they were doing or had done. Everybody deserves to be loved and cherished at the end of the day.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: And so say all of us.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Ar dtús, déanaim comhghairdeas le mo chara agus mo chomhghleacaí, an Seanadóir Kyne. Go n-éirí leis lena dhualgas nua. I was also extremely glad Deputy Fergus O'Dowd had his friends and former classmates from the Sharman Crawford Street technical institute in the House. In the group was my friend from my own home parish, Mattie Kilroy, and his wife Kathleen....