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- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 58: In page 87, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “(b) In paragraph (a)— “clinical pregnancy” means a pregnancy not less than six weeks in gestation and in respect of which there is evidence of a gestational sac having been identified through an ultrasound scan;”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 59: In page 87, line 34, to delete “(b) In paragraph (a),”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 60: In page 90, line 8, after “any” to insert “net”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 62: In page 94, line 24, to delete “(8)” and substitute “(7)”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 63: In page 94, line 36, after “parents” to insert “or one of them”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 65: In page 96, to delete lines 6 to 9 and substitute the following: “(b) The court may waive a requirement under subsection (1) for consent from an intending parent, in the case of two intending parents, if he or she— (i) is deceased, (ii) cannot be located after reasonable efforts have been made to find him or her, or (iii) lacks the capacity to...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 67: In page 107, line 17, after “or” to insert “a”.
- 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.