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- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 68: In page 107, line 27, after “or” to insert “a”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 69: In page 107, lines 34 and 35, to delete “subject to the provisions of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015,”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 70: In page 120, line 2, to delete “of” and substitute “for”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 71: In page 123, lines 10 and 11, to delete “the generality of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 or”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank Deputy Shortall for the proposed amendment. I do not have a policy view on this at all. We want to do what is legally robust. We want to be cognisant that these proceedings can come at great expense to parents and at great inconvenience to parents who have already been through so much to have a surrogacy in the first place. We have looked at this up and down. We have gone back to...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The discussion was considered, as were the two similar amendments, and I thank both Deputies for tabling them. I understand that the intention is to seek a derogation for medical practitioners from the prohibition on knowingly providing a service that is to give effect or further effect to non-permitted international surrogacy. There are two points I want to make. First, section 89(5)...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I understand why the amendments were tabled but I reiterate what I said. This is a very marginal protection and safeguard that provides that, if intending parents go to a medical practitioner and say they are intending to proceed with a non-permitted surrogacy and want his or her medical help in proceeding with that, the medical practitioner will not be able to do that. The intending...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: That is fully covered. There is a full exemption once a woman becomes pregnant. It will only be beforehand that this will apply.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: To a pregnant woman, there is a total exemption. A medical practitioner can provide any advice in that case.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: That will apply only if the medical practitioner is told. If the intending parents say that they are about to do something which is not permitted under law and that they want the practitioner to facilitate that with them-----
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: We are debating two different things. One is best interests, which we debated in one of the previous amendments in terms of its primacy. I accept the ombudsman's hazard position. I just hold a different position for the reasons we have set out. The specific amendments are about the grounds on which a judge can grant a parental order, even if a biological parent, a surrogate or both are...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I stated that the Deputy's amendments are not legally robust. I was not referring to my amendments, which are legally robust.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I am.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Time.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Time.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: To be clear, I am stating that we need a legally robust version of what the Deputy is attempting to do. The limited exemptions we are putting in place are legally robust because they are limited. Let us play it out. We could do it the Deputy's way. We could say we will take some time and bring this into the Seanad on Committee Stage. We will give it a few weeks. That is what it will...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: They will have numerous conflicting pressures, and this could take a long time. I am stating clearly that I am not willing to take that risk. I commit to having this Bill passed for the children and parents who are desperately waiting for it. If that means also having amending legislation going in parallel immediately after we come back in September, that is absolutely what I am proposing....
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 47: In page 78, to delete lines 16 and 17 and substitute the following: “(a) the law of the jurisdiction relating to surrogacy, including whether or not that law— (i) permits a commercial surrogacy referred to in section 93, and (ii) requires intending parents or one of them (or, in the case of a single intending parent, that intending parent)...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 48: In page 80, to delete line 35 and substitute “specified in section 107(2);”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 49: In page 81, line 13, after “satisfied” to insert “, based on the information available to the AHRRA,”.