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Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I said I would not make any further contributions but I feel compelled to comment further. I am happy to virtue signal my enthusiastic support for safe access zones. There is nothing wrong with that. There is nothing wrong with showing strong support for something. With regard to the issue of religion being demonised, that is not the case at all. I am a religious person, as I have always...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: We do not have to sit and listen to this.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: On Tuesday, 26 April 2022.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I wish the Cathaoirleach and the new Leas-Chathaoirleach the very best of luck as we undertake this very important work in the coming months. I listened very carefully to the contributions, which were excellent and very informative, and a couple of questions arise. Mr. O'Connor said no EU state has legislated for international surrogacy. Is he aware of any state that is perhaps thinking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: As Mr. O'Connor said in his contribution, other countries have utilised their existing family law arrangements to work around the situation. We know our current family law is not at all suitable or acceptable for families created through surrogacy arrangements. Is Mr. McGennis aware of any state that has successfully provided safeguards for the interests of the child and the interests of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: From my own knowledge and from what we have heard so far, many parents find the difficulty in the lacuna when they come back to Ireland with their child, as there are no rights attaching to the mother and there is a two-year plus waiting period. Are there better ways we can approach that in a more timely fashion so that a child and a mother are not left without rights for two or three years?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I thank Professor O'Mahony for his presentation. I want to go back to the court-ordered supervision model he mentioned. Perhaps he could provide a little more detail around that. Does he envisage court-ordered supervision being conducted by Irish-based lawyers or other professionals or would they be based in the home country of the surrogate mother?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I will ask a follow-up question. If, for example, a court decided not to authorise the arrangement due to some failure in the certification process, I suggest that it is already too late once the child has been conceived and the gestation is ongoing because we are going to end up with a baby at the end of the process. There are so many children already affected by a legal lacuna. We are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Would Professor O'Mahony prefer stand-alone legislation to deal with surrogacy or does he think an insertion into the main assisted human reproduction Bill would suffice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Is Professor O'Mahony concerned that if we had a stand-alone Bill to deal with surrogacy the momentum might be lost?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: If that risk was not there, would the gold standard be to have a stand-alone Act?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Professor O'Mahony would be happy that we could adequately put everything into the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill and have a very good framework there for international surrogacy within it.

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (6 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Now.

Seanad: Covid-19: Statements (6 Apr 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I thank the Minister for taking time out of his schedule to update us. Thankfully, Covid-19 has in one sense blended into the background of all the other political issues and is not the main political issue. However, we all know that it is still a concern in our hospitals and communities. While the case numbers are high, we are not seeing as many people get as sick. That is a result of...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Linda Ervine to mark Seachtain na Gaeilge (3 Mar 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Ba mhaith liom fáilte ó chroí a chur roimh Linda. Is iontach an rud é go bhfuil sí linn chun Seachtain na Gaeilge a cheiliúradh agus is iontach an rud é a scéal a chloisteáil. Tá a cuid oibre thar na blianta ar son a pobail agus ar son a teanga in oirthear Bhéal Feirste inspioráideach. Molaim go hard í as an sárobair...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Logainmneacha na Gaeltachta: An tAire Stáit ag an Roinn Comhshaoil, Aeráide agus Cumarsáide (2 Mar 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as an gcur i láthair. Níor thug sí freagra ceart do mo chomhghleacaí, an Teachta Ó Cuív. An bhfuil an Roinn sásta comhairle an Ard-Aighne a lorg?

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Logainmneacha na Gaeltachta: An tAire Stáit ag an Roinn Comhshaoil, Aeráide agus Cumarsáide (2 Mar 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: An bhfuil an Roinn sásta comhairle an Ard-Aighne a lorg? Is ceist bhunúsach sin. Tá an Roinn sásta nó níl sí.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Logainmneacha na Gaeltachta: An tAire Stáit ag an Roinn Comhshaoil, Aeráide agus Cumarsáide (2 Mar 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Nílim sásta é sin a dhéanamh.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Logainmneacha na Gaeltachta: An tAire Stáit ag an Roinn Comhshaoil, Aeráide agus Cumarsáide (2 Mar 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Ní bhfuair mé freagra ar an gceist maidir leis an Ard-Aighne. An bhfuil éinne sásta freagra a thabhairt? An bhfuil an Roinn sásta dul chuig an Ard-Aighne nó nach bhfuil sé? Ní dlíodóir í an Aire Stáit agus níl a fhios agam an bhfuil aon dlíodóirí ina Roinn ag tabhairt na comhairle sin go bhfuil dualgais na...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Logainmneacha na Gaeltachta: An tAire Stáit ag an Roinn Comhshaoil, Aeráide agus Cumarsáide (2 Mar 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Níl tú sásta freagra cruinn a thabhairt.