Results 521-540 of 5,732 for speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: No.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: They have everything to do with the amendment. We are discussing DAHR.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: No, but I am only speaking about the importance of parenting.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am speaking about the importance of having genetic parents, where possible. I think I have made my points.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I will conclude. I thank the Senator for the prompt. I would be grateful if the Minister explained why we do not have a stand-alone Bill.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, I would like the Senator to speak about how this would extinguish children's rights.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: No one wants to see discrimination.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: In any family.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Exactly.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The point at issue is maturity. Senator Norris has mentioned more than once in this debate that it is a blob of sperm and we should get over it. Where the blob of sperm is put is what is important. The sperm has all the DNA to allow one to become a father. There is a fair bit of responsibility attached to that. One must give due deference to the young people who may be enticed to donate....
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I understand that.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: If this was to be mandatory, we would have to enforce it. Unless it is included in legislation now, it could not be enforced. It will only be enforced where there is a hereditary illness. There is no doubt that this is the least best possible scenario for the child. We spoke about whether the Bill was child-centred or otherwise. Setting up a donor register is child-centred, but is it in...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: These are interesting amendments. I am glad to hear Senator Norris talking about the blob of sperm as being a "golden blob of sperm" or was it a "blob of golden sperm"?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Are we trying to establish the identity of a donor who would have made a donation on the basis of remaining anonymous? If so, can we legally do this? Can we legally enforce something where anonymity was part of the terms of the contract at the point of handover? It is important that every donor knows the power and the potential of what they are doing but I do not think a person who makes...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The case made by Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh is interesting. The Minister will recall that I raised the issue of intra-family and inter-generational donations last week. It is a little different because it involved a friend. The Minister's response was that we would need another Bill to deal with that issue. She did not mention adoption to me and I wonder if there is a difference.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I raised this issue last week and the Minister responded concerning the whole area of inter-generational and inter-family donation. The Minister said this would be dealt with in detail in the next Bill on artificial human reproduction. As we can see, there can be hundreds of computations. Once it takes off at that level into the multiple range of numbers and computations, unless there are...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I second the amendment. I think we are rather weary, however,
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Senator Rónán Mullen is doing us a favour on the basis that-----