Results 141-160 of 2,078 for speaker:Mary Seery Kearney
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister for his robust rejection of these amendments. I will go through all of them and point out the errors in their conception, if you pardon the pun. Amendment No. 1, which is based on the idea that parents entering into surrogacy should be on par with adoptive parents and meet the criteria for adoption, seeks to conflate surrogacy and adoption, which are different things in...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: It is Seery Kearney.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: I am sorry but is this relevant?
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: I do not deny there is child sexual abuse. Not at all. I do not deny it. I am curious, Arbour Hill Prison is where most of our sex offenders and rapists are held. Are we moving to make sure none of them ever fathers a child again? In the case of anybody who can in their full fertility have a child what are we doing? Are we moving to a place where we think we have a right now to...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: We are using the term "suboptimal", which is to presume there is a circumstance that is optimal. In Senator Mullen's proposition, optimal refers to a mother and a father. However, optimal also means not being born into poverty or having the opportunity of education and a whole heap of things. If we decide on what optimal is, are we then moving into a position of eugenics? Are we moving...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: In regard to the possibility, I want to give a piece of information to Senator Mullen about Nordic countries and donor gametes. The fact is that couples can have their own ethnicity, be that Asian or any other ethnicity, reflected in the choice of donor when they go into fertility services. There is a range here. Lest anything remain on the record of the House to imply that everybody is...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: Perhaps the Minister would like to answer those questions before I address my two amendments in this group.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: I have two amendments in this group. I will not be moving any of my amendments. They are merely there for discussion purposes. I flagged to the Minister's officials that this would be the case. Before I get into them, I will address a couple of things. There were a few chestnuts that were always predictable so let us nail those here and now. The first is the quotation from the Ukrainian...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: Jesus. Seriously.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: With due respect, there are particular-----
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: Yes, there are, but for provocative statements-----
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: With due respect, I do not think the Gallery should be corrected on that.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: Seriously.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: On a point of order, we are in Seanad Éireann speaking about the people of the Republic of Ireland.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: I do not care. It needs to be said. How dare the Senator be so trite and offensive, and be permitted to be so.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: There is a smoke-and-mirrors casting of the situation, as it is proposed in the Bill, going on. For future surrogacies, we will have a regulatory authority that will look at all of the circumstances and get increasingly better as it moves on through the years, which is what I used to think and say about it. The more experience that regulatory authority gets, the better it will get at...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: I am staying to the amendments. There has been an issue cast over people who may go to domestic surrogacy and a characterisation of anybody at international. These are the people who Senator Mullen is courting. On another day, he would not have anything to do with them. They just suit his twisted argument now in characterising everybody in a particular way. The two women who shared on...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: They are the Senator's friends from yesterday.