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Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 52:In page 38, to delete line 38.

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 54:In page 39, to delete line 7.

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 55:In page 39, to delete lines 9 to 14.

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 60:In page 39, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following:“Central Register for Statutory Declarations for Joint Guardianship 6C. The Minister shall cause to be established and maintained a register to be known as the Central Register for Statutory Declarations for Joint Guardianship, the purpose of which is to provide protection for the statutory...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 47:In page 37, lines 14 to 18, to delete all words from and including ", and" in line 14 down to and including "child" in line 18.

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In fairness, many different issues have been raised. We would agree to the Minister being given more time to respond.

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have no more comments to make.

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I wish to speak to amendment No. 47. We discussed this at length on Committee Stage and I appreciate that the Minister has put in an amendment to strengthen the area of statutory declarations. This is a serious debate and organisations such as Treoir have been to the forefront in highlighting the issue. There is inequality as between a father and a mother as things stand. There must be...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 34:In page 26, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following:"(8) A transition period of 12 months, from the date of enactment, will be allowed for cases where patients have already selected or paid for anonymous sperm donors or have the donation currently in storage in Irish clinics awaiting use in treatment, to complete their treatment cycles. (9) A transition...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Based on those very welcome and firm assurances, I am very happy to withdraw the amendment.

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In the absence of a legislative basis and on the back of the debate, will the Minister and her colleagues refer this discussion to the Minister for Health and ask him to consider, if it is not already the case, the implementation of strong guidelines? This is coming from the clinicians themselves. They are acknowledging that this is not happening across the board. I appeal for this debate...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 8:In page 13, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:"(9) The intending parents of a donor-conceived child must undergo counselling prior to their initiation of DAHR.".This amendment has been tabled in response to representations made by clinicians. Unfortunately, I missed the Committee Stage discussion on this amendment which I have resubmitted on this Stage....

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I appreciate the assurances provided by the Minister. Will she indicate when the Minister for Health will introduce the legislation to which she alludes? Will it come before the House later this year? We must avoid delay and the possibility that a new Government will have to introduce legislation in this area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Remit: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (11 Mar 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The committee is sitting today in its capacity as a joint sub-committee on the ombudsman, and this is the last in our series of meetings with each of the sectoral ombudsmen to discuss their respective roles and remits. Before introducing the Ombudsman for Children, Dr. Niall Muldoon, and his team, I note that this week is Seachtain na Gaeilge. Tá brón orm but we do not have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Remit: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (11 Mar 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Are members agreeable to the proposal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Remit: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (11 Mar 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I note the Senator's disappointment. Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do today to facilitate members' right to put questions in Irish. As I said, if the Senator submits a question in Irish after the meeting, we will ensure he gets a response in due course. I am pleased to have an opportunity to congratulate Dr. Muldoon on his appointment. I understand he has an indepth knowledge of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Remit: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (11 Mar 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Dr. Muldoon for his presentation. In relation to the issue of legal professional privilege it is most helpful that Dr. Muldoon is before us here today. I am particularly mindful of the March 2012 report by the then ombudsman, Emily O'Reilly, and it was on the operation of the Ombudsman for Children Act 2002. Section 4 of that report deals with investigation of complaints procedure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Remit: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (11 Mar 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Are there not already sufficient safeguards regarding confidentiality in the existing legislation? Dr. Muldoon has dealt with this but perhaps he would like to add to it. At what stage in the process is legal professional privilege claimed? Is it during the investigation or when a report is mooted or published?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Remit: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (11 Mar 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is of course the Senator's right, particularly during Seachtain na Gaeilge, to conduct his business in his native language. As I pointed out and the start of the meeting, we will e-mail the question to the witnesses and we will obtain a response. The fact I do not have fluent Irish has left me at a little disadvantage here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Remit: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (11 Mar 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Absolutely.