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- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
David Cullinane: And a meeting. Many of these issues will arise anyway in the later sections.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
David Cullinane: They all will. I am happy with that.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
David Cullinane: That is fair.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
David Cullinane: Will that briefing take place before we meet again as a committee?
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
David Cullinane: What was absent from the latest briefing was any feedback from the Department of Social Protection. Issues obviously arise in that regard, some of which I have raised. They are issues on which we would want to get a bit more clarity at the next briefing. It may not have been fully resolved yet.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
David Cullinane: Yes, child benefit and all of that.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
David Cullinane: I might read this Part because I am referencing different subsections and paragraphs and it is easier if I read it. I intend to move amendment No. 43. A concern was raised with me that the section, as currently drafted, would exclude persons who wish to freeze their eggs. Such persons would not necessarily comply with the section 15(b), which requires a woman receiving AHR treatment to...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 43: In page 24, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), an AHR treatment provider may provide AHR treatment to a person for the purposes of retrieving and cryopreserving a gamete in anticipation of a DAHR procedure in the future. (3) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as excluding the provision of AHR...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
David Cullinane: On that basis I will withdraw my amendment.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
David Cullinane: I have a very similar amendment on the same issue. We had a lengthy discussion with the officials on this issue and we got some clarity on it. What was explained to us is that the threshold of the obligations on providers to ensure there is not any risk to the child is lower than originally intended because of some of the changes that were made. Having said that, it is a very extensive...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
David Cullinane: Yes, I think a clarifying note would be helpful. For me, the thrust of the issue is the legal threshold here. The Minister hit the nail on the head when he asked what the definition of "satisfied" is because the organisations are concerned about what their legal obligations are. Insofar as they can, they will try to meet those obligations but it needs to be made very clear what they are....
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
David Cullinane: When the Minister says Aire does he mean himself or does he mean the AHRRA?
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
David Cullinane: Why was there a reluctance to define "satisfied", as well as the requirements that would be on the provider, in the Bill itself? Is there a reason that was not considered and included in the Bill?
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
David Cullinane: There are lots of issues that would be for the regulator, but we can be prescriptive. While the regulator has a job to do, it also has to take the lead from the legislation and what the Oireachtas has decided to do. If we wanted to, we could define what we, as legislators, mean in terms of "satisfied". The regulator then has to deliver on that and maybe add to it, but there is a basic...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
David Cullinane: I ask the Minister to seek a legal opinion on the status of regulations in secondary legislation before the next meeting. We need to be satisfied that if it was included in secondary legislation it has the same level of protection.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
David Cullinane: I ask for clarity. The Minister may well be right.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
David Cullinane: We dealt with that.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
David Cullinane: Amendment No. 79 is a technical amendment but will have the same effect. I have the same concerns as Deputy Shortall. My understanding is that the section as drafted will criminalise anyone who makes or receives a payment or makes a donation outside of what the Bill describes as reasonable expenses for their donation, which we support. As Deputy Shortall said, Ireland does not have its own...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)
David Cullinane: The issue of reasonable expenses is adjudicated on as part of the court process but the court will have to be satisfied the expenses were reasonable and in line with what is intended. Is that correct?