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Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: There is further support in international law for the contention that a child should have a mother and a father who are married and in a stable relationship.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I am explaining why international law-----

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: The Hague Convention in dealing with inter-country adoption provides only for adoption by married couples. It appears to view married couples as the gold standard. The Bill allows cohabiting persons to use donor-assisted human reproduction methods and creates no distinctions in the context of adoption. If it is deemed appropriate in cases of inter-country adoption only for two parents to...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: We both have.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I refer to proceedings at the health committee where are essential to this issue. Senator Jillian van Turnhout asked Dr. Shannon whether he had been misunderstood when he said marriage was the gold standard for families. In his response he said he had been misunderstood and that he had been talking about marriage in the context of all citizens having access to it. However, it is clear,...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I understand that. I directly clarified with Dr. Shannon a quotation from the Child Trends brief which refers to the two biological parents in a low-conflict marriage providing the best environment. The claim has been made that that is not applicable to any consideration of a same-sex couple in marriage or a heterosexual couple in marriage. It seems strange to ask us to believe that...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: No.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: As I was not here at the start of the Order of Business, the Leas-Chathaoirleach may be able to assist me. Is it still proposed that Committee and Remaining Stages of the referendum legislation be taken tomorrow?

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: Committee Stage is being taken today.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: Could we arrange to change it? When I was a member of the Committee of Procedure and Privileges and meeting the other groups, many of us took the view that taking Committee and Remaining Stages on the same day should very much be the exception rather than the rule. It would be particularly inappropriate to do so in the case of the referendum Bill tomorrow, not least because I have tabled...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: Perhaps the Deputy Leader would convey that to the Leader because it is significant and I want to give people early notice of that.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I understand. I would like a debate on the rural practice allowance, a payment of approximately €17,000 to general practitioners who establish their practices in rural areas, provided for under the Health Act 1970. The public benefit associated with this is obvious. Many older people living in rural areas face substantial difficulties in accessing health care resources, as other...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: Perhaps the matter can be passed on to the Leader.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: No.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: No, I am just opposing it.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 2: In page 13, line 5, to delete “, civil partner or cohabitant, as the case may be,”.As will be clear to people who have looked at the amendments, the approach that Senator Quinn and I have taken is that we are opposed to all of the provisions on donor-assisted human reproduction because we believe that all of those provisions are replete with injustices...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: The Minister has had much more consultation, I would aver and I would be bound, with the fertility industry than she has with people who have deep concerns about the legislation. I would like to know whether the Minister has actually had a one-on-one meeting with anyone who is concerned about where the Government is going on this. I would love if she had met Dr. Joanna Rose; perhaps she...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I stated that the legislation declares that a donor is not the parent of a child born as a result of that procedure and has no parental rights and duties in respect of the child. I suggest that the majority of Irish people would be appalled by this notion. These issues should be addressed in the context of a Bill purporting to regulate the assisted human reproduction industry and should not...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: Everything here is being subjected to the exigencies of a referendum, which is why this is being rushed through like an express train or, as somebody said to me the other day, more like a dose of salts. If we had any respect for the electorate and the Oireachtas we would not allow something so cursory on something so fundamental. I mentioned Dr. Joanna Rose. She is regularly told she...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I will get them for Senator Norris.