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

Rónán Mullen: In a way, it is ironic because I suspect that I would regard some of the procedures they are involved in as unethical. Nonetheless, I defend their right to not be accused of being unethical if they communicate certain beliefs about the state of things that they believe these to be true in good faith. I can only conclude, if Senator Sherlock and I are speaking about the same letter, that the...

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

Rónán Mullen: I will add a few words. I thank the Cathaoirleach and welcome him back. I want to emphasise my support for what Senator Keogan said. I again stress that I am concerned that these provisions are happening at all and that we are providing for them at all. Regarding domestic surrogacy, if there were to be no commercial nexus it would at least be easier to try to ensure that. It is debatable...

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

Rónán Mullen: I notice that these amendments are grouped and I am not entirely happy with that. Can I ask for clarification?

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

Rónán Mullen: I would like to be able to speak to some of these amendments more sequentially.

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

Rónán Mullen: I understand that.

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

Rónán Mullen: Yes, it is just that I do not necessarily want to discuss them in that order. That is what I am saying.

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

Rónán Mullen: My difficulty is that I might rather speak to some of the amendments at the point where I move them.

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

Rónán Mullen: No, I understand that. I am just saying that I will have to go through them in a different way.

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

Rónán Mullen: I will do my best.

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

Rónán Mullen: I am not crying "foul".

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

Rónán Mullen: Do not contradict me before I make an assertion. I am just saying that. When were the groupings agreed, by the way? Was it on the Order of Business?

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

Rónán Mullen: Would they have been agreed on the Order of Business?

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

Rónán Mullen: I probably did not hear that. I should have squawked at that point and perhaps I would have got a hearing.

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

Rónán Mullen: That is fine. I will try and squawk in future, for all the good it might do.

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

Rónán Mullen: Thank you for that, a Chathaoirligh. I have already spoken to amendment No. 9. There are real concerns in relation to human trafficking in connection with surrogacy. It is bad enough that certainty will exist on the passing of this legislation, but practices that we would all regard as slavery are something we should avoid entirely. I note that the Minister says that he is striking a...

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

Rónán Mullen: It was obvious last year that the Minister is entirely in facilitatory mode. It does not matter what human rights abuses are entailed here. The adults shall have what they want. Amendment No. 27 is obviously the international surrogacy version of the amendments to which I already spoke. I propose the deletion in page 77 of lines 4 to 6, which refer to a surrogate mother who is an EU...

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

Rónán Mullen: I have just put it to the Minister that there is a risk of the development of a surrogacy industry. We know the international context here. We heard what the Ukrainian situation is. Senator Seery Kearney does not like the language but the question is if what is said is true. That is more important than courtesy. There are human rights at stake here. There are people being violated and...

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

Rónán Mullen: That is what is at work here.

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

Rónán Mullen: We are not in the Stella Cinema in Rathmines where people get to react to what they see on the screen. We are talking about human rights abuses.

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

Rónán Mullen: Yes, and we have to be sensitive to the poor women of this world who are being completely forgotten by this legislation, who are exploited for their bodies, and the trafficking that is going on, the trading in children, the commodification of children, the denial upfront, in advance and forever of a child's right to be loved and nurtured by their birth mother, who has cared for them for nine...