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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 194. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on plans to accelerate implementation of the HSE's integrated financial management system; the timeline he is working towards for full roll-out of the new system; the role of the newly established productivity and savings taskforce in respect of this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3172/24]

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I will also say thanks. These comments are normally reserved for the end of the process. There is a long process ahead of us. I appreciate all the work that has been done to date and look forward to getting through this monstrous task as regards the volume of the Bill and the amendments. I hope we can do so as expeditiously and as thoroughly as possible.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 5: In page 12, line 22, to delete “16 years” and substitute “12 years”. Please bear with us all because it is difficult to manage the various documents. Amendments Nos. 5 and 8 relate to providing access to birth details. The Bill currently provides for that to happen at the age of 16 years. I am proposing that 16 years be...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It was actually the Joint Committee on International Surrogacy that made the recommendation, along with Conor O'Mahony. This is an important point.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I will press it because of the strong recommendations that have been made.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I am pressing it.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 6: In paragraph (b)(iii), after "mother" to insert ", and if any, her spouse, civil partner or co-habitant. This does not interfere with the agency of the surrogate in any way. It simply recognises, in circumstances where the woman has a partner, that the social and psychological implications for the partner are quite significant. Because of this...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: This does not suggest compulsion. It speaks about the need to provide counselling. It is not that it is compulsory.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It is that counselling is provided for a person in those circumstances.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I do not see how providing counselling for that person's partner diminishes that.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: But will it? The question is whether it will if it is not referenced.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I will not press the amendment.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Were we not discussing amendments Nos. 46 and 47 in that grouping?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I know we did not vote on them but we did not discuss them either.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Are we also discussing the entire section now?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: That is fine.