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Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I commend Senator Ardagh on her Bill. I cannot see anyone not supporting it in its entirety. I have just come from the Committee on Autism's first year anniversary meeting, in which it listed its recommendations and the progress thereon. I want to first reflect on the fact that there is never a case here where a committee sits, produces a report and has a progress report a year on. That...

Seanad: International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I welcome the Minister, Deputy McEntee.

Seanad: International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: We need to take a point of order, Senator.

Seanad: International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: You need to resume your seat while we deal with a point of order.

Seanad: International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I cannot hear both of you at the same time. Senator Keogan, you need to resume your seat while I hear the point of order.

Seanad: International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am advised it is a political charge and therefore is not directed at Members of the Chamber. I call Senator Keogan.

Seanad: International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Senator. Her time has elapsed.

Seanad: International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: The Senator needs to resume her seat. Her time has elapsed. I have been more than generous in allowing for the time she lost due to a point of order.

Seanad: International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: The Senator needs to resume her seat now.

Seanad: National Cancer Services: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I welcome the Minister of State. I commend my colleague Senator Kyne on drafting and bringing forward this motion. It is excellent and aptly timed. I reiterate the asks. The idea that your probability and possibility of surviving cancer is dependent on where you live, your socioeconomic grouping or your geographical location is awful. It should not be that way in 2024.It is shocking that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I think I am in line for a Louis Vuitton for her 21st birthday or something like that. I am saving; I have saved for 21 years. I want to begin by paying enormous tribute to the Acting Leader. I am thrilled to see him as Acting Leader today. I missed the last day he was here. I am about to speak about the Oireachtas disability group, but I actually want to pay tribute to the fact that...

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister for his robust rejection of these amendments. I will go through all of them and point out the errors in their conception, if you pardon the pun. Amendment No. 1, which is based on the idea that parents entering into surrogacy should be on par with adoptive parents and meet the criteria for adoption, seeks to conflate surrogacy and adoption, which are different things in...

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: It is Seery Kearney.

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am sorry but is this relevant?

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I do not deny there is child sexual abuse. Not at all. I do not deny it. I am curious, Arbour Hill Prison is where most of our sex offenders and rapists are held. Are we moving to make sure none of them ever fathers a child again? In the case of anybody who can in their full fertility have a child what are we doing? Are we moving to a place where we think we have a right now to...

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: We are using the term "suboptimal", which is to presume there is a circumstance that is optimal. In Senator Mullen's proposition, optimal refers to a mother and a father. However, optimal also means not being born into poverty or having the opportunity of education and a whole heap of things. If we decide on what optimal is, are we then moving into a position of eugenics? Are we moving...

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: In regard to the possibility, I want to give a piece of information to Senator Mullen about Nordic countries and donor gametes. The fact is that couples can have their own ethnicity, be that Asian or any other ethnicity, reflected in the choice of donor when they go into fertility services. There is a range here. Lest anything remain on the record of the House to imply that everybody is...

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: Perhaps the Minister would like to answer those questions before I address my two amendments in this group.

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I have two amendments in this group. I will not be moving any of my amendments. They are merely there for discussion purposes. I flagged to the Minister's officials that this would be the case. Before I get into them, I will address a couple of things. There were a few chestnuts that were always predictable so let us nail those here and now. The first is the quotation from the Ukrainian...