Results 221-240 of 459 for speaker:Phil Prendergast
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (19 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I will press the amendment.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (19 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (19 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I move amendment No. 83: In page 67, lines 35 and 36, to delete "vacancy, or (c) a member of a local authority." and substitute the following: "vacancy.". I had a problem with the Bill as originally drafted because I did not know why members of local authorities were disqualified from the adoption board. It is an example of how the role of councillors is not seen as all-encompassing,...
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (19 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I move amendment No. 86: In page 93, lines 16 and 17, to delete all words from and including "ensuring" in line 16 down to and including "bodies" in line 17 and substitute the following: "promoting the carrying out of the activities specified in sections 4 and 5 by accredited bodies". The International Adoption Association has a view on this. Under current provisions, any support...
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (19 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I will not repeat the points that have been made as they are many and varied and they echo my thoughts on this subject. I am not being contentious in saying that I had no difficulty with the quality or the quantity of e-mails received.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (19 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: People express themselves in the best way they know how and sometimes frustration can lead them to couch their views in a certain way. It is our job not to take such comments personally. I can understand the why people might do that because I worked for many years in dealing with people who were infertile and undergoing the many treatments involved in that respect and it gave me an insight...
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (19 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I still believe the legislation is flawed in this regard and would like the Minister of State to look at it again.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I move amendment No. 58: In page 37, line 10, after "oath" to insert "or affirmation".
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I move amendment No. 66: In page 60, line 7, after "Authority" to insert the following: ", which shall give consent to that information being given where the adopted person and the person placing the child for adoption have agreed through a tracing mechanism to be established by the Authority that the information can be given". Amendment No. 66 arises from submissions we have received on the...
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I thank the Minister of State for his comments.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: That is very welcome.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I move amendment No. 9: In page 20, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: "(a) the birth of the child has been registered, and either the particulars of the father have been registered or the mother has sworn and furnished to the accredited body a statutory declaration that the father is unknown or missing, and cannot be traced using reasonable inquiries, unless the court permits...
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: Section 16 merely gives a right to the father to apply to be consulted on adoption. It is extraordinarily insulting and offensive to put in legislation that a father has only a right to be consulted about his own child being permanently removed from him. It is almost unbelievable that this minimal level of protection is proposed in law in 2009. I would like to see fathers protected in this...
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I move amendment No. 22: In page 24, line 15, after "consideration" to insert the following: ", and it shall be presumed unless the contrary is shown that the welfare of the child is best promoted in the society of either or both of the child's natural parents".
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: As I stated earlier the test arose from the Supreme Court decision in the case of N v. the HSE. The principle set out in the amendment is pro-family, which leaves ample room for the rights of the child to be protected where the presumption is rebutted.