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- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Amendment No. 66 not moved.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 67: In page 107, line 17, after “or” to insert “a”.
- 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. 68: In page 107, line 27, after “or” to insert “a”.
- 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. 69: In page 107, lines 34 and 35, to delete “subject to the provisions of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015,”.
- 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. 70: In page 120, line 2, to delete “of” and substitute “for”.
- 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. 71: In page 123, lines 10 and 11, to delete “the generality of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 or”.
- 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)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Amendments Nos. 72 and 77 are related and may be discussed together.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 72: In page 156, to delete line 19. I have had contact from a couple of different groups including the LGBT+ Parenting Alliance, which has particularly drawn my attention to this. The Department has said the reason the High Court has been given jurisdiction is because it believes a transfer of motherhood can only take place there. We discussed this issue in...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank Deputy Shortall for the proposed amendment. I do not have a policy view on this at all. We want to do what is legally robust. We want to be cognisant that these proceedings can come at great expense to parents and at great inconvenience to parents who have already been through so much to have a surrogacy in the first place. We have looked at this up and down. We have gone back to...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
David Cullinane: These amendments provide beyond reasonable doubt that a medical professional will not be criminalised for offering genuine medical advice. There is a difference between amendment No. 51 and amendment No. 52. My amendment No. 52 permits the courts to exercise reasonable discretion in determining this, and I think that is a better course of action. I understand the logic of amendment No. 51...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The discussion was considered, as were the two similar amendments, and I thank both Deputies for tabling them. I understand that the intention is to seek a derogation for medical practitioners from the prohibition on knowingly providing a service that is to give effect or further effect to non-permitted international surrogacy. There are two points I want to make. First, section 89(5)...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: There certainly seems to be an inconsistency here insofar as other professionals are not treated in the same way. Legal advice and consular advice are permitted but, arguably, medical advice is much more important. I just do not understand the reason for precluding it. I think it is an omission from the Bill and I will be pressing the amendment.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Emer Higgins: I know we are getting towards the end of the Bill, so, speaking on the amendment, I take this opportunity to thank the Minister, the Minister, Helen McEntee, and their officials for all the work they have put into legally recognising surrogacy in Ireland. I served as the Vice Chair of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on International Surrogacy and, under the stewardship of Deputy Whitmore and...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Sorry, Chair, is this in order? We are speaking to amendments.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is in order to speak to the amendment. Is the Deputy speaking to the amendment?