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- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Tá Colm Brophy, James Browne, Richard Bruton, Mary Butler, Thomas Byrne, Jackie Cahill, Dara Calleary, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Jack Chambers, Niall Collins, Patrick Costello, Michael Creed, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon, Stephen Donnelly, Paschal Donohoe, Francis Noel Duffy, Bernard Durkan, Damien English, Alan Farrell, Frank Feighan, Joe Flaherty, Charles Flanagan, Seán Fleming,...
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Question declared carried.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 7.55 p.m. go dtí 9 a.m., Déardaoin, an 30 Bealtaine 2024. The Dáil adjourned at at 7.55 p.m. until 9 a.m. on Thursday, 30 May 2024.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Question put and agreed to.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Cuirfear an Bille chuig an Seanad.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Emer Higgins: I thank the Minister for Health, the Minister. Deputy McEntee, and the officials in both their Departments who worked on this, the Office of the Attorney General, the Oireachtas health committee, my fellow members of the Joint Committee on International Surrogacy, which was a special committee put in place to look at this, especially its Chair, Deputy Whitmore, and my colleague, Senator Mary...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: First, I welcome our guests to the Gallery. Hello again. Today is a good day for healthcare and people in Ireland. I came at speed to the Chamber from a launch of the new beds plan. We all agree it has been needed. Today we launched a plan for an additional 3,500 hospital beds. Everyone will welcome that over the next seven years. We have 1,200 beds open, another 440 under...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 86: In page 181, line 12, to delete “section” and substitute “paragraph”. This amendment would ensure that all non-clinical conceptions up to this paragraph coming into operation would be covered by the legislation, as opposed to just those up to 4 May 2020, the date on which the section of the Child and Family Relationships Act was...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank Deputy Shortall for the proposed amendment, which is the same as one she tabled on Committee Stage. We have had a good debate on this. The purpose of the amendment, as I understand it, is to switch the cut-off point before which less onerous retrospective provisions apply to certain donor-assisted human reproduction procedures from May 2020 to a later date into the future. In...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I accept what the Minister is saying and will withdraw my amendment.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Amendment, by leave withdrawn.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 87: In page 182, to delete line 33.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Amendment agreed to.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 88: In page 187, to delete lines 20 and 21.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Amendment agreed to.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Bill, as amended, received for final consideration.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Question proposed: "That the Bill do now pass."
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
David Cullinane: I just want to make a number of remarks because this is a groundbreaking Bill. We have been through a very lengthy process and I genuinely do not believe that this Bill has been rushed or that we have done anything in haste. We have done our job very diligently. There was a lot of pre-legislative scrutiny. In fact, there was an Oireachtas committee that did a huge amount of work on this...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: The passage of this Bill through the Dáil today is a really important landmark. It is undoubtedly very warmly welcomed by many of the campaigners seeking recognition of their parent-child relationships. Huge credit goes to those campaigners for their tireless and compelling work making the case so strongly to legislators that this issue should not slide down or off the political...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Does the Minister not accept the point I have made that there is now a splitting of motherhood or the concept of motherhood? For other purposes, it was assumed that the birth mother was the genetic and gestational mother. That is no longer the case in a situation of surrogacy. There is a distinction between the genetic mother and the gestational mother. The constitutional provision to...