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- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 25: In page 54, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “ “variant” means a permanent change to the DNA sequence that makes up a gene that may cause disease or be part of normal human variation.”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 26: In page 55, line 1, to delete “abnormality” and substitute “variant”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 27: In page 55, to delete lines 3 to 10 and substitute the following: “(a) PGT-M or PGT-SR is being undertaken, or (b) such testing has been indicated in accordance with criteria that have been prescribed (following, on and after the establishment day, consultation by the Minister with the AHRRA).”. This amendment updates section 46, which relates...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 28: In page 55, line 13, to delete “a child” and substitute “an existing child”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 29: In page 55, line 14, to delete “suffers from” and substitute “has”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 30: In page 55, line 28, to delete “from which such child suffers” and substitute “which such child has”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 31: In page 56, line 16, to delete “abnormality” and substitute “variant”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 18: In page 53, line 33, to delete “mental” and substitute “intellectual”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 19: In page 54, line 2, to delete “a child who suffers from” and substitute “an existing child who has”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 20: In page 54, line 12, to delete “abnormalities” and substitute “disorders”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 21: In page 54, line 14, to delete “abnormal” and substitute “unbalanced”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 22: In page 54, line 16, to delete “defects” and substitute “disorders”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I think we were all in a similar position on Committee Stage. We went back to the HSE with that in mind to ask whether we could facilitate this for the reasons we all discussed on Committee Stage. We got very strong pushback on patient safety grounds and I will now go through that. I was hoping to come in with something facilitating the discussion we had but we got very strong pushback....
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputies. To be honest, I do not have a policy view on this. This is an expert view from the HSE. As I understand it, the HSE is essentially saying that rather than linking the decision-making on this to a disease, we should link it to the treatment for the child. A disease may or may not cause fertility issues, some of which may be permanent and some of which may be...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank both Deputies. It is specialist advice. The concept of the word “irreversible” is in favour of the patient. Let us take one child as an example. If, based on current medicine, the treatment to be provided to the child would cause irreversible infertility, that would give the child access. Hopefully, that would become reversible through science in the future but if...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Essentially, this is looking at doing it on a case-by-case basis. It is saying that we should not just categorise any child who has a progressive disease. It is saying we should characterise this based on the treatment we will apply to this child. As such, it does move it to a case-by-case basis.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 13: In page 45, lines 18 to 20, to delete all words from and including “or” in line 18 down to and including “be” in line 20.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 14: In page 47, line 27, to delete “three” and substitute “12”. This group of amendments, amendments Nos. 14 to 16, inclusive, increases the minimum time period from three to 12 months between the time at which a clinic sends notification of non-payment for storage and that clinic being able to dispose of such stored materials, whether...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 15: In page 50, line 1, to delete “three” and substitute “12”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 16: In page 52, line 10, to delete “three” and substitute “12”.