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Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (6 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Now.

Seanad: Covid-19: Statements (6 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I thank the Minister for taking time out of his schedule to update us. Thankfully, Covid-19 has in one sense blended into the background of all the other political issues and is not the main political issue. However, we all know that it is still a concern in our hospitals and communities. While the case numbers are high, we are not seeing as many people get as sick. That is a result of...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I want to make a brief comment, which will be my only comment today because I am also concerned about the limited time we have. The sentiments expressed by colleagues across the House are very right and fitting. It is worth noting that protests outside hospitals not only intimidate the women, their partners and other support, who are accessing termination services, they intimidate...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I said I would not make any further contributions but I feel compelled to comment further. I am happy to virtue signal my enthusiastic support for safe access zones. There is nothing wrong with that. There is nothing wrong with showing strong support for something. With regard to the issue of religion being demonised, that is not the case at all. I am a religious person, as I have always...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: We do not have to sit and listen to this.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: On Tuesday, 26 April 2022.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I wish the Cathaoirleach and the new Leas-Chathaoirleach the very best of luck as we undertake this very important work in the coming months. I listened very carefully to the contributions, which were excellent and very informative, and a couple of questions arise. Mr. O'Connor said no EU state has legislated for international surrogacy. Is he aware of any state that is perhaps thinking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: As Mr. O'Connor said in his contribution, other countries have utilised their existing family law arrangements to work around the situation. We know our current family law is not at all suitable or acceptable for families created through surrogacy arrangements. Is Mr. McGennis aware of any state that has successfully provided safeguards for the interests of the child and the interests of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: From my own knowledge and from what we have heard so far, many parents find the difficulty in the lacuna when they come back to Ireland with their child, as there are no rights attaching to the mother and there is a two-year plus waiting period. Are there better ways we can approach that in a more timely fashion so that a child and a mother are not left without rights for two or three years?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I thank Professor O'Mahony for his presentation. I want to go back to the court-ordered supervision model he mentioned. Perhaps he could provide a little more detail around that. Does he envisage court-ordered supervision being conducted by Irish-based lawyers or other professionals or would they be based in the home country of the surrogate mother?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I will ask a follow-up question. If, for example, a court decided not to authorise the arrangement due to some failure in the certification process, I suggest that it is already too late once the child has been conceived and the gestation is ongoing because we are going to end up with a baby at the end of the process. There are so many children already affected by a legal lacuna. We are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Would Professor O'Mahony prefer stand-alone legislation to deal with surrogacy or does he think an insertion into the main assisted human reproduction Bill would suffice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Is Professor O'Mahony concerned that if we had a stand-alone Bill to deal with surrogacy the momentum might be lost?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: If that risk was not there, would the gold standard be to have a stand-alone Act?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Professor O'Mahony would be happy that we could adequately put everything into the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill and have a very good framework there for international surrogacy within it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I thank all our guests who gave us a comprehensive overview of where we stand in this regard. I also thank them all for their work over the years. It is a historic moment for them to be here with the committee not discussing whether women should be able to access healthcare, but how we can improve that healthcare for women in Ireland. The review was much discussed during the campaign....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: What is the international experience with time limits?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Could the witnesses elaborate on the impact of criminalisation on healthcare providers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I was not suggesting that at all, absolutely not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Okay.