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Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 131: In page 58, to delete lines 8 to 22 and substitute the following: “(7) Without prejudice to the generality of section 63(4) and (5), the AHRRA and the Attorney General shall be served with a copy of the section 62 application.”.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 132: In page 58, line 35, to delete “section 62(1)(b)” and substitute “section 62(1)(b)(i)”.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 133: In page 59, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “(3) In determining, under subsection (1)(a)(v), what is in the best interests of the child, the court shall have regard to all the circumstances that it considers relevant to the child who is the subject of the section 62 application concerned, including— (a) the child’s age and...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: May I revert to the Deputy?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 134: In page 59, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: “(4) At any time on or after the court receives a section 62 application and a relevant authority is not already a party to the proceedings, the court may, at any stage of the proceedings, of its own motion or on the application of any party to the proceedings, direct that all necessary papers in...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 135: In page 59, to delete lines 10 and 11 and substitute the following: “(b) subject to paragraph (e), the child is no longer the child of any person other than a person named as a parent in the order,”. These amendments, in combination, seek to confirm that, where a parental order is granted, any person who is not named on the order is not a parent...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 136: In page 59, line 14, to delete “and”.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 137: In page 59, line 16, to delete “child.” and substitute “child, and”.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 138: In page 59, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “(e) the order does not affect any order previously made under section 35 of the Status of Children Act 1987 in respect of an intending parent of the child.”.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 139: In page 59, line 33, to delete “commencment” and substitute “commencement”

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 140: In page 60, lines 16 and 17, to delete “update or correct the information, as the case may be, without delay,” and substitute “, without delay, update or correct the information, as the case may be,”

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 141: In page 62, to delete lines 5 to 7. These amendments, in combination, remove the requirement for surrogate mothers, donors or intending parents to be notified of an application seeking identifying information about them that has been submitted by a relevant person, that is, a child born as a result of a domestic surrogacy agreement. This requirement is being...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I probably have a different note from the one the Deputy has. In mine, it is specifically just lines 5 and 7, and then lines 20 and 21 on page 62 of the Bill.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I just have amendments Nos. 141 and 143.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Firstly, I want to acknowledge that waiting lists for scoliosis and spina bifida services are unacceptably long. I am acutely conscious of the burden that this places on patients and their families. I committed €19 million under the 2022 and 2023 Waiting List Action Plans to tackle these waiting lists. This investment has supported an increase in the number of spinal procedures...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Internships (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 143 and 146 together. I fully share the Deputy’s wish to see doctors and other health professionals fleeing the war in Ukraine gaining registration with their respective regulators and taking employment here. Officials from my Department, the HSE and the health profession regulators have been actively working towards this for some time now....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Internships (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: GP recruitment is ongoing under the joint HSE and ICGP non-EU GP Training Programme. 112 non-EU GPs were recruited last year under the training programme with 75 having started in GP practice at year end. Detailed information on the programme, including information on the eligibility criteria for applicants, is available from the ICGP website. As per the eligibility criteria, the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The Dental Council of Ireland is the regulator for the dental profession in Ireland. The Council is responsible for establishing, maintaining and publishing a Register of Dentists and a Register of Dental Specialists and to provide for the registration and the retention of dentists names in these registers. As of the 16th of February 2024 13 Ukrainian dentists have received full...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. In relation to...