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- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Róisín Shortall: That is fine.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I welcome the Minister's approach to this. These proposals came directly from clinics and professionals working in the area, and they made the point anybody can go through a difficult financial period where they are not able to keep up with payments they should be making. Very often, there are very legitimate reasons for that and it should not exclude somebody, but they felt this is too...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 8: In page 13, line 25, to delete “16 years” and substitute “12 years”.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I would like to make a couple of points. I think there is an issue with the gendered nature of the language in the Bill and I am not sure to what extent the Minister or his officials have thought this through. It refers to a gamete formed in the body of a male and a gamete formed in the body of a female and so on. I wonder why we cannot use more straightforward language, such as "egg" and...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Is Ms Carter referring to legal advice or opinion?
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. I think being more specific would not affect the legal implications of it. Could consideration be given before Report Stage to changing some of the language to make it more inclusive?
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Yes, I am happy to do that. I outlined some examples earlier. Turning to the amendment on posthumous AHR, why is it that that is available only to women? Recommendations were made, again by the committee, but as it stands the Bill allows for only surviving females to access posthumous AHR. I am not clear on what the justification is for the exclusion of surviving males, especially in...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I thank the Minister.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Róisín Shortall: That explanation does not seem to add up, intuitively. A surrogate is a surrogate. I think the term "mother" is superfluous there. There is no confusion about who the surrogate is.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It is the case that the language is going to be looked at again. Okay, that is fine.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I wish to comment on the language used in the Bill, namely, that "The AHHRA shall produce a format of the AHR information document in both plain English and easy read". I think we are all struggling with the complexity of the provisions and the language in this Bill. This is why I am proposing this format would be the case.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It is amendment No. 38. I am sorry. That amendment is a little further on.
- 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. 27: In the definition of “surviving partner”, to delete “female spouse, female civil partner or female cohabitant” and substitute “spouse, civil partner or cohabitant”.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Which the Minister is prepared to look at again.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Section 7(1) states: "In the case of two intending parents, they shall be spouses, civil partners or cohabitants of one another." Again, what I want to say is in line with some of the issues that I have raised. Some groups would argue that cohabitation should not be a requirement. The reference that I was given is that in 2015 the European Court of Human Rights ruled on gay marriage in...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Róisín Shortall: What is that based on now?
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I just think we are getting into the area of opinion there. I have quoted the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights and surely that should be a reference point at least. Was it taken into consideration? We can talk about supposition or individual feelings about this but there is a ruling. I am just putting this matter out there and I ask the Department to take a look at it.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Róisín Shortall: The referendum does not refer to cohabitation. The Department might take a look at this and we will come back to it on Report Stage.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 38: In page 22, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(d) The AHHRA shall produce a format of the AHR information document in both plain English and easy read. (e) The AHR information document shall use gender neutral terminology and shall include information specific and relevant to the lives and needs of disabled people.”. I have already...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I am happy to withdraw the amendment on that basis.