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- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 33: In page 58, to delete lines 16 to 21 and substitute the following: “(3) Without prejudice to the generality of section 151, the specified form of a surrogacy agreement shall require, in the case of two intending parents, each of them to indicate that he or she understands that, should the agreement be approved under this section but he or she dies...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Amendment agreed to.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 34: In page 59, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: “(8) In the case of two intending parents, should a surrogacy agreement be approved under this section but an intending parent dies before the embryo transfer concerned has been effected, such approval shall, by virtue of this subsection, be treated as revoked from and including the date of...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Amendment agreed to.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 35: In page 59, line 25, after “satisfied” to insert “, based on the information available to the AHRRA,”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Amendment agreed to.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 36: In page 61, lines 8 and 9, to delete “a registered medical practitioner” and substitute “an appropriate medical specialist”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Amendment agreed to.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
David Cullinane: This is complex legislation. This amended version of it is lengthy and covers many areas. I have in the past commended the Minister's officials on the work they have done. It has been phenomenal but we will get to that later as we conclude the Bill. In all the exchanges we had with the officials and the Minister on many issues, the Minister always said the best interests of the child have...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: We are all trying to get this right and to put the child front and centre while we balance important protections for the surrogate and rights of the intending parents. As the Deputies have said, no country has legislated for international surrogacy like this before. There are a few points I want to make on this. First, the best interests of the child test is in the legislation. I will...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As I said, I approached this with a view to facilitating it. I will read for the Deputies the exact clinical advice we got back. We unequivocally do not support or recommend this approach and would highlight the risks of overseas doctors being involved in the provision of such clinical advice and decision-making in such a sensitive area who operate outside the context of Irish legislation...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
David Cullinane: If we could avoid sending them abroad, would it not be better?
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Obviously, but under the treatment abroad scheme, for example, it might be possible to identify centres of excellence around Europe where we could say, "Yes, you can go for this particular thing because the treatment abroad scheme works on the basis that it is something we provide here under the public system and you cannot get it, so you can get it abroad." I have a lot of sympathy with the...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I do not want to go against what the Minister says is very strong advice. I do not know from whom the advice came but I think it is unnecessarily restrictive. The Minister has made the case himself in the points he has made, but it is just very hard to understand. I certainly hope there will not be issues that arise very soon in this regard and in regard to the availability of...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Amendment put and declared lost.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 24: In page 54, line 26, to delete “sex.” and substitute “sex;”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Amendment agreed to.
- 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)
Amendment agreed to.
- 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”.