Results 241-260 of 7,581 for speaker:Rónán Mullen
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: If he does not, he is the one who dies and he is the single intending parent, what happens to the embryo?
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: If he is a single intending parent, it is his genetic child and the embryo is created, what happens if he dies? If a single male intending parent provides a genetic-----
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: He engages in a surrogacy-----
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: What happens to the embryo?
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: This is the section of the Bill that covers the safety of children. It states that: "The AHRRA shall not approve... unless it is satisfied... that the relevant person, and each other relevant person, does not present a potential significant risk of harm or neglect". This to some degree connects back to the amendment proposed by Senator Keogan and me that would have provided that: (a) No...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: As I was listening to Senator Seery Kearney, I wondered whether Tusla has an unblemished record when it comes to the vindication of children’s welfare and safety. That is a helpful question to ask, because in the view of many people, it does not. There are failures, and when we ask ourselves why there are failures, whether it is down to bad actors, the incompetence of the system or...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I am in no way playing the person rather than the ball. Senator Seery Kearney knows that I am sincere in my convictions around this issue. I speak for many people when I say that a child is entitled to be brought into the world by a father and a mother and where possible, by his or her own father and mother. It is not me, it is the Government, supported by Senator Seery Kearney, that is...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: That is a separate question.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I was positing the situation that a convicted rapist might have a consensual relationship that might lead to a child and the mere fact that we do not yet sterilise convicted rapists. It is simply to make what really should be a much more obvious point, that the State has a right to apply certain tests and expect certain standards if its supportive apparatus is being called in aid of...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Is that in the Bill?
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: The Minister spoke about how it would be great if we could all reflect. That is why we should not be rushing Committee and Report Stages together so that we could actually reflect on what each other is saying. However, I must say the Minister’s logic does not stand up as to his reason for not accepting that earlier amendment about the sex abuser. In absolutely no way did the...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: This may help what the Minister sees as a straw man to become clearer. There is a time to be specific about requirements and not just to hope for the best. If right now people on the street were asked if a person assaults another person and leaves them unconscious on the street, should it be mandatory that some custodial sentence would be served, everybody would say that is a no-brainer....
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 16: In page 61, line 30, to delete “21 years” and substitute “25 years”.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: All of these sections are important and I have a couple of questions for the Minister. This is the section that sets out, in the context of domestic surrogacy, who may be intending parents. The section provides that a surrogacy agreement may be entered into by two intending parents, jointly, or by a single intending parent and that any intending parent shall have attained the age of 21...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: This does allow it through celibacy, now that you mention it. We have this bizarre situation where high-profile people have been able and enabled to have children through surrogacy. We have had the stories about wanting to bring them in from Ukraine in the context of the war and so on. All of that is stuff we can readily sympathise with, within the facts as they are. The problem is there...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Does the Senator make-----
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I still am.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister for that important clarification.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Senator Ruane was not in the room. She has not been doing her homework.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: If she paid more attention, she might have a point to make.