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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: I would have concerns that a judicial process would be overly burdensome financially. Access to the law is expensive, and if we are to take this approach it will involve a very time-limited process. I am only teasing this out, but it might be better if the transfer of parentage took place before conception. There would not be a ticking clock or time pressure if that was the case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: They are not complete.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: Legal certainty.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: That is a very important point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: Yes. They are travelling for legal certainty, not for exploitation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: I was referring to Ms Keegan's belief in her submission that the majority of them take place abroad. That is her experience.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: I was asking if Dr. Rose was the same person who conducted the study in the submission from the Iona Institute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: I am no longer a trade union representative.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: That is very interesting. It was indicated that such research was not available, but it is good to know that it is. We will have to look at it if the delegates can provide it. We have referred to children who were donor-conceived and have reached adulthood. I am not talking about interviewing parents and asking how their adult children are; rather. it is about interviewing the children.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: Is it ongoing work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: Yes and I will then take questions from Senator Warfield and Deputy O'Connell.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: The broader question relates to counselling. We have been through a process to consider the regulation of people using the title "counsellor", specifically in the case of agencies setting themselves up, where the need for regulation was clear. The Senator is asking about whether the option should be available in the context of assisted human reproduction and, if so, whether it should be for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: The purpose of the hearing this morning is to examine all available evidence and, while the conversations are wonderful, Deputy O'Connell was making the point that the longitudinal studies are really the only available evidence.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: I do not think it has been established that the harm exists, with the greatest of respect.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: I am not hearing the evidence that the harm exists. When Dr. Rose talks of assessing the harm I am not convinced that harm necessarily exists. We are here to hear from everybody. We have a long way to run on this legislation. There is a great deal of scrutiny to get through.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: Ms O'Friel said substantial evidence exists that children are growing up unhappy. Does she have any actual evidence? There is much anecdotal evidence from people's friends and so on. What evidence that we could interrogate is there? Is there anything more substantial than saying there are potentially thousands of cases? There is the longitudinal study, which is welcome because it will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: Ms O'Friel said they are crying out for research but that research is not done.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: Being able to engage critically is where we need to get to. The longitudinal study is great because we will have an opportunity to engage critically with it. It has to inform our work and what we are doing. On the comments about child abduction, I am fairly sure Ms O'Friel did not mean to be offensive. People in my life have been affected, which I do not offer as any kind of evidence...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: One does not dream about or imagine that he or she will abduct them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: Ms O'Friel said people would grab them out of the bush.