Results 6,601-6,620 of 49,836 for speaker:Stephen Donnelly
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: GPs are self-employed practitioners and therefore may establish practices at a place of their own choosing. There is no prescribed ratio of GPs to patients and the State does not regulate the number of GPs that can set up in a town or community. Where a GP GMS vacancy is set to arise in a practice, the HSE is notified in advance and becomes actively involved in the recruitment process to...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 89: In page 46, to delete lines 18 to 34, and in page 47, to delete lines 1 to 11 and substitute the following: “ “AHR treatment to which this Part applies” means— (a) PGT, (b) HLA matching, and (c) sex selection; “genetic counselling”, in relation to AHR treatment to which this Part applies, means a service provided by a...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: That would be the default anyway but I will ask the officials to look at it through that lens as well.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 118: In page 53, line 9, to delete “or agrees to offer, make or give” and substitute “, or agrees to offer, make or give,”.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 120: In page 53, line 14, after “include” to insert “fees paid for legal advice referred to in section 50(4) or 58 or”. I beg the Chair's pardon but are we agreeing amendment No. 124 now as well?
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: -----of the concept that mothers are the mothers of the children to whom they give birth. The Deputy is asking if that legal relationship exists where there is not a genetic relationship and the very clear legal advice we have is that it does. We will get the Deputy a note from the Attorney General providing chapter and verse, and we can ask for a reference to the Supreme Court judgment to...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Right now, yes.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: That is my understanding.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I suggest there is not much that has not been discussed. We are going through this Bill in a lot of detail, so-----
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The committee will certainly not hear me object to anything members may wish to discuss on Report Stage. The more discussion we have on all this, the better.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: There will also be the safeguard that we will have at least one more session to discuss this matter. Hopefully, it will be just one more. My understanding is that once something is raised, the members are covered.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I moved amendment No. 141 and spoke to amendment Nos. 141 and 143.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Just now. I will do so again if the committee wishes.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: No problem at all.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Amendments No. 141 and 143, in combination, remove the requirement for surrogate mothers, donors or intending parents to be notified of an application seeking identifying information about them which has been submitted by a relevant person, a child born as a result of domestic surrogacy. This requirement is being removed because there is no provision for the surrogate mother, the donor or...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The point is that we do not want to have a situation where the child, in exercising their right to identity, could somehow be prohibited or that the application could be interfered with through an application for an injunction or whatever it might be. It is exactly that. We are protecting the right of the child to seek his or her identity.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 142: In page 62, lines 15 and 16, to delete “section 69 application” and substitute “ “section 69 application” ”.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 143: In page 62, to delete lines 20 and 21.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 144: In page 64, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “Provisions supplementary to sections 72 and 73 74. Sections 72 and 73 shall, with all necessary modifications, apply to— (a) a specified form, not being an application under this Part, given to the AHRRA under this Part as they apply to an application made under this Part, and (b)...