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- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I accept that.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is-----
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I want to hear that from the Minister.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator was asked by Senator Susan O'Keeffe to specify.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am happy with quite a lot of what the Minister has stated in response to my amendment which I tabled to seek the clarification she has offered to me. My amendments, supported by Senator Feargal Quinn, seek to ensure all family types would be discussed and offered as part as the adoption assessment process. I wish to clarify that the birth mother's preference as to family type would be...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I will consider it over the weekend and perhaps table it on Report Stage.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is not the point.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Incorrect. I voted for civil partnership.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order. That is a terrible slight. I voted for civil partnershp and not reluctantly.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like that the record be corrected on that.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Sorry?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like Senator Norris to withdraw the comment.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is ignorance.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The law currently only recognises the woman who gives birth to the child as the mother but the legislation proposes to change this. Commissioning parents here will become legal parents. There is an unacceptable blurring of biological lines to enable legal definitions to fit. This distortion of family will inevitably only serve to complicate matters for children as they grow up and we must...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: -----Germany, Austria, Italy, France and Switzerland. Use of donor eggs is not allowed in Germany, Austria, Italy, France-----
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: He did not read this.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: He may have touched on one section
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am outlining the backdrop to the amendments I will discuss.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We are creating a situation that is not typically available in many other European countries according to PhD research. Amendment No. 27, which has been tabled by Senators Mullen and Quinn is reasonable. It states: "A person shall not perform a DAHR procedure other than on the request of intending parents who are legally married to one another or in a civil partnership with one another or...