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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Okay. My colleague, Deputy Lahart, had started touching on the notion proffered earlier that perhaps seepage from St. Vincent's Hospital, when there is spare bed capacity, could somehow trigger the €850,000 annual rent clause. In Ms Murphy's professional opinion, would that trigger it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I thank the Chairman and all our guests for attending. I have a few questions and will try to get through them as quickly as possible. I will ask Professor Higgins about terminations in St. Vincent's currently. I am aware that terminations are usually carried out in maternity units but are sometimes carried out in non-maternity units. Have terminations been carried out in St. Vincent's in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Those are circumstances where the woman's life is not at risk.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I thank the witness. My next question is for Mr. John O'Donoghue because it is a legal question. There has been much talk about the option of a compulsory purchase order, CPO, of the land. Will Mr. O'Donoghue bring us through the legal process and tests used by the court when deciding a CPO application?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: My understanding of the CPO process is that if a viable alternative is available, such as a long lease of 299 years, a CPO would not be granted. There is a very high test for parties to reach in circumstances where a very long lease has been offered at nominal rent. I will touch on the St. Mary's site and building a hospital on the adjacent site. What would the clinicians' opinion be of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: It would be an inferior option.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I have a few other questions but I am happy to move on and allow in another member. I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I am on the Leinster House campus. I welcome our guests. It was wonderful to hear from all of them and their opening statements were good and insightful. Like my colleagues I wish Shane and Carlos the very best over the coming weeks and months as they begin their journey. As everyone will attest it is a nerve-wracking road to parenthood so I wish them the best of luck over the coming...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Is Dr. Bracken proposing a certification model or just an advisory model?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Is she proposing the Irish regulatory authority certifies particular countries and says these are the countries that are adhering to best practice and that we advise you to go to? Is the regulator certifying these standards are definitely being met there or is it that from what we can gather, these are the best countries to go to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Thus it is more of an advisory and information service for people based in Ireland who are looking at international surrogacy options.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Okay. I just wanted to see exactly what Dr. Bracken was proposing because there was reference made to a kind of "green list" and a fast-track system for people who went to certain countries. The point of view I am coming from is we have many people in a limbo at the moment. I do not want us to inadvertently create another limbo for people such that there is one list of countries that allow...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Dr. Bracken is not proposing a kind of green list.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Okay, so it is up to any set of parents to come back with their child and say they were in X country and these are my affidavits and these are the qualifications of everybody that dealt with it. Every family can therefore avail of the system Dr. Bracken is proposing as best practice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I thank Dr. Bracken for that extra information. On the declaration of parentage and the post-birth or pre-birth transfer of parentage, as the committee is examining international surrogacy, is this an issue that is outside our scope because we in Ireland do not have the ability to dictate whether another country looks at parentage post-birth or pre-birth? In the situation we were talking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Okay. I thank Dr. Bracken for answering that. I have a final question. The Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022, which is dealing with many other assisted human reproduction issues, is a health related Bill. Dr. Bracken spoke at the start of her presentation about how the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 has created two different tiers of parents - some who are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I thank Dr. Bracken. If I could ask one other question-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Could I ask a really quick question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Okay.