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

Jennifer Whitmore: No. I am sorry. We have gone over.

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

Jennifer Whitmore: I have one question which is a follow-up to one of the questions Senator Clifford-Lee had for Dr. Bracken. When Dr. Bracken talked about how we could not adjudicate on entire jurisdictions and it should be it on a case-by-case basis, is there an option or a model whereby we accredit particular entities or clinics because we determine that they follow a particular ethical pathway and that we...

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

Jennifer Whitmore: A written response would be fantastic. I thank Dr. Bracken. I thank each of our witnesses for coming in today. Each time we have these conversations, it further cements the fact that we cannot keep going with the system that we have. The system that we have is the one that most disadvantages, makes vulnerable and takes away the rights of children, surrogates and intending parents. I...

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

Jennifer Whitmore: In our second session today, we will be considering the provision of citizenship rights and travel documents for children born through international surrogacy arrangements, ensuring that existing children born through such arrangements can exercise citizenship rights and have access to travel documents and arrangements for the verification of documents issued in other countries. On behalf...

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

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the witnesses for their contributions and I now invite Senator Mary Seery Kearney to ask questions.

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

Jennifer Whitmore: Senator Keogan is next.

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

Jennifer Whitmore: The Senator had a third question.

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

Jennifer Whitmore: I will briefly touch on the point Senator Ruane was making. Is there an issue in relation to discrimination if a man in a same-sex relationship does not have the presumption of fatherhood granted when a man in a heterosexual relationship does?

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

Jennifer Whitmore: I have a question on the safeguards. In the previous session we spoke about how to ensure there is an ethical process in place. The models we looked at would not be viable to assess entire jurisdictions. Perhaps it was to be done more on a case-by-case basis. There is a middle option whereby there is potential for assessing particular clinics to state they follow certain guidelines and...

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

Jennifer Whitmore: With regard to the DNA samples required, there are some entities from which the tests are accepted. There is already some level of accreditation of a medical process in a different jurisdiction. Is this correct?

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

Jennifer Whitmore: It is a second-tier accreditation that happens.

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

Jennifer Whitmore: Would it be feasible to set up a regulatory authority to oversee this? Could this be a function it could undertake? Would the Department be comfortable with this?

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

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the officials for coming in. The next time they come in we must have a whiteboard so that we can go through all the different permutations. My brain is doing somersaults here trying to get through it all. I thank them for coming in and being so helpful and for all the work that they have done over the past while as well. I thank the members. The next meeting of the joint...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank Sinn Féin for moving this motion. It is an important discussion and I was hoping we would get some clarity on the issue of the turf ban. Nothing but confusion has been generated in the media by Ministers and Government representatives in the past fortnight. It has fuelled fear for many people in rural Ireland regarding what is going to happen to their ability to burn peat for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: New Retrofitting Plan and the Built Environment: Discussion (26 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Yes, I am indeed. I thank the witnesses for their presentations today. They were incredibly interesting, but also very worrying, because this seems to be a real blind spot for us as a country. It does not seem like we have actually even thought about this as an issue. Dr. Kinnane spoke about the modelling of what the embodied carbon is for the current housing and building stock. Has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: New Retrofitting Plan and the Built Environment: Discussion (26 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Just on that, because I know this work was done with the SEAI, I would imagine that they may have some understanding. They would also be very familiar with the conditions being placed on the one-stop shop entities and whether or not those specific conditions reflect the underperformance and what has happened previously with the retrofitting that has been installed and implemented.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: New Retrofitting Plan and the Built Environment: Discussion (26 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Hopefully, there is going to be a significant ramping up of retrofitting and we are going to have many people coming into the industry who may not necessarily have worked in it before or have the expertise. Is the correct regulation and governance of that work in place at the moment to ensure that we do not see significant problems going forward with how the retrofitting is being conducted?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (26 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 222. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider putting in place further measures to improve environmental performance in the SME sector through greater resource efficiency in response to a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21265/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 272. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a review of employment practices in relation to contracted employees within his Department is currently being undertaken; if so, if this will affect the long-term status of the long study, multi-million euro Tellus Programme within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20021/22]