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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. 88: In page 187, to delete lines 20 and 21.

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)

Bill, as amended, received for final consideration.

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Question proposed: "That the Bill do now pass."

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

David Cullinane: I just want to make a number of remarks because this is a groundbreaking Bill. We have been through a very lengthy process and I genuinely do not believe that this Bill has been rushed or that we have done anything in haste. We have done our job very diligently. There was a lot of pre-legislative scrutiny. In fact, there was an Oireachtas committee that did a huge amount of work on this...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The passage of this Bill through the Dáil today is a really important landmark. It is undoubtedly very warmly welcomed by many of the campaigners seeking recognition of their parent-child relationships. Huge credit goes to those campaigners for their tireless and compelling work making the case so strongly to legislators that this issue should not slide down or off the political...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Does the Minister not accept the point I have made that there is now a splitting of motherhood or the concept of motherhood? For other purposes, it was assumed that the birth mother was the genetic and gestational mother. That is no longer the case in a situation of surrogacy. There is a distinction between the genetic mother and the gestational mother. The constitutional provision to...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Emer Higgins: It would make logistical sense if this could be dealt with in the District Court. This was something we discussed at length in the committee, and it came up again and again from an access and accessibility perspective. I welcome what the Deputy said about cost because while my preference is that this be heard in the District Court, my higher and ultimate preference is that this is done in a...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I have dealt with the issue of cost several times. That has been my position for quite some time. I am not a constitutional lawyer, and nor is Deputy Shortall. We are both getting legal advice from lawyers. I take my advice from the Attorney General, and I must do that. I fully respect Deputy Shortall's position and no doubt she is getting expert legal advice on this. I have to take my...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I am withdrawing the amendment. This is another gun to the head situation, it seems.

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 73: In page 158, line 21, after “parents” to insert “or one of them”.

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. 74: In page 160, lines 9 and 10, 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)

Amendment agreed to.

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 75: In page 160, to delete lines 13 to 21 and substitute the following: “(2) (a) 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...

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)

Amendment No. 76 not moved.

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 77: In page 164, to delete line 17.