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Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 37: In page 22, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(3A) The Minister shall agree with the Public Appointments Service the selection criteria and process to be implemented in respect of the filling of any vacancy on the Commission. These amendments are related. They relate to the make-up of the commission in terms of experience. Again, we...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 38: In page 22, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: (3A) In making recommendations for appointment of persons to the Commission, the Public Appointments Service shall have regard to the need to ensure that the members of the Commission broadly reflect the nature of Irish society and that such persons possess knowledge of, or experience in— (a)...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 46: In page 24, lines 24 and 25, to delete “, where the value of the interest exceeds €5,000". The Bill, as it stands, includes arbitrary thresholds with respect to the financial interests that a prospective commissioner may hold in a provider of communications media. To ensure absolute independence, it is preferable that no member of the commission...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 47: In page 24, lines 26 and 27, to delete ", where their aggregate value exceeds €13,000".

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 48: In page 24, lines 30 and 31, to delete ", where their aggregate value exceeds €650".

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 53: In page 29, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: "(6A) All members of a committee established by the Commission shall, for the avoidance of doubt, be subject to the same requirements to disclose interests under section 37.". Amendment No. 53 inserts a subsection providing that, for the avoidance of doubt, members of a committee established by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I thank everyone for their presentations. My first question is for Dr. Bracken. With regard to pre-birth and post-birth agreements, what is included? Is it only parentage? If it is a post-birth agreement, does that ever conflict with any health decisions that need to be made during labour if, for example, something goes wrong or if there is a threat to the woman's life? What is actually...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: In Mr. Kenny Moore's statement, he said that, under our framework, if the legal parent dies, people can be left in limbo. I do not know if there has been an instance of this in Ireland yet or if we are speaking hypothetically, but what would that situation mean for a child?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Is there potential for the State's child and family agency to step in and create another level of complexity in that situation with regard to care orders and so on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: My questions are for our guests from the Department of Foreign Affairs. Some of them kind of tie in with the questions Deputy Higgins asked in respect of citizenship. I refer to situations where the biological intended father is not an Irish citizen but the other intended parent is. Obviously, that has to go into a process. What happens in a situation such as that if the parents plan to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: It is obviously a matter that is coming up and that we do need to consider in the context of those safeguards anyway. My other question relates to passports. Am I correct that a surrogate mother, as the legally recognised mother of the child, is the guardian under Irish law but if she is married, her husband is joint guardian? That does not naturally transpose in Irish law, however, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Why does his husband not automatically get the same rights that the last husband got, in terms of guardianship?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: So it is a presumption of parentage. Sorry for interrupting; I am trying to figure it out in my head.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Is that in legislation, and not in the Constitution or anything?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: The presumption is written into legislation in relation to a woman being married and carrying a child that the husband is automatically the father of the child.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Okay. That is interesting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: It impacts differently now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I had not considered we needed to look, within this area, at the presumption of guardianship to a non-biological husband of a surrogate. I have a question on the comment that mostly it is after the fact that the Department comes in. Should there be a register of intention so people are not waiting until after the fact? It is a long procedure for people making these decisions. Rather...