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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)
Mary Seery Kearney: The precarious part is that at that stage, by the time the Department is engaging and the emails with all of the documents are going to it, a baby is born. We have embryological standards and we touched on that a little at our last meeting. We know that embryos that were created in Ireland can be sent out to clinics abroad. Those clinics have been confirmed by the likes of the Rotunda...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)
Mary Seery Kearney: Something that has come out of all of this is that women who need to pursue surrogacy as single women do not have an option to do so in this situation because there is no way to create citizenship even though she may be the biological mother and there is a donor father. Single intended mothers and same-sex female couples have the same issue. They cannot avail of surrogacy for these reasons....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)
Mary Seery Kearney: To be fair, it is not these Departments.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)
Mary Seery Kearney: I can say that with my hand on my heart.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)
Mary Seery Kearney: Professor Mary Nugent talked about how, clinic to clinic, one can make a judgment call on the protocols and procedures. Maybe there is a way of that knowledge finding itself into the regulatory authority as a pool of knowledge to say that these are clinics. We could not legally stand over that advice but we could give indications.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)
Mary Seery Kearney: I draw the Leader's attention to the fact that today is the 36th anniversary of the explosion at Chernobyl. It was the darkest day in the history of humanity because of its everlasting consequences. In 2016, Ms Adi Roche was invited to speak before the UN General Assembly on the fact that we need a day of remembrance, that Chernobyl is something which can never be consigned to history and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Business of Joint Committee (21 Apr 2022)
Mary Seery Kearney: I second the nomination.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)
Mary Seery Kearney: Ms Cohalan is entitled to respond to the Senator's inflammatory language.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)
Mary Seery Kearney: Critical thinking does not excuse inflammatory and sensationalist language.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)
Mary Seery Kearney: Well said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)
Mary Seery Kearney: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)
Mary Seery Kearney: This issue is very personal for many people here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)
Mary Seery Kearney: Absolutely, it did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)
Mary Seery Kearney: But respectful views. It has to be respectful views.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)
Mary Seery Kearney: It must be respectful opposition.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)
Mary Seery Kearney: This is not respectful opposition.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)
Mary Seery Kearney: This is sweeping, atrocious, sensationalist statements.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)
Mary Seery Kearney: How dare you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)
Mary Seery Kearney: How dare you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)
Mary Seery Kearney: First, I echo Senator Ruane's apology. I rowed in with her on that subject and perhaps escalated a row. I apologise to the Acting Chair, because it put her in a difficult position, to our witnesses and in the context of the general discourse around this matter. There are many people who are possibly opposed to surrogacy. It is perfectly all right for them to hold that opinion and we...