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Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 45: In page 69, to delete lines 1 to 4 and substitute the following: “(2) (a) The court may waive a requirement under subsection (1) for consent from an intending parent, in the case of two intending parents, if he or she— (i) is deceased, (ii) cannot be located after reasonable efforts have been made to find him or her, or (iii) lacks the...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

David Cullinane: We discussed this earlier, perhaps with officials or the Minister. When concerns were raised, that was the exact advice we got - that the Bill already deals with this. That there is now legal advice that says, hang on a second, we may well need to do something else, means we have to do it. All of those scenarios the Minister pointed out could happen. We always look at worst-case scenarios...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I note the Minister's amendments to these sections include the phrase, "lacks the capacity to make decision in that regard". I ask the Minister to consider further grounds for waiving consent. I strongly argue that the best interests of the child must be the paramount consideration. The Minister referred earlier to this already forming part of the legislation but it is in the legislation...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Amendments Nos. 37, 38, 57 and 58 are related and will be discussed together.

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 37: In page 61, line 12, to delete “pregnancy” and substitute “clinical pregnancy”. This grouping of four amendments relate to the addition of a definition of "clinical pregnancy" in the context of eligibility requirements of a perspective surrogate mother. The change is proposed on foot of Committee Stage amendments from Deputies...

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. 38: In page 61, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “(b) In paragraph (a) - “clinical pregnancy” means a pregnancy not less than six weeks in gestation and in respect of which there is evidence of a gestational sac having been identified through an ultrasound scan;”.

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. 39: In page 61, line 13, to delete “(b) In paragraph (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. 40: In page 63, line 31, after “any” to insert “net”.

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)

Catherine Connolly: Amendments Nos. 41 and 61 are related and will be discussed together.

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 41: In page 67, to delete lines 18 to 26. Under the current process, as I understand it, a child born through surrogacy would reside with his or her intending parents with the consent of the surrogate. As I am sure the Minister will be aware, Dr. Claire O'Connell has repeatedly pointed out that this is not equivalent to legal custody and puts the child in a very...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The two amendments seek to remove the provision in the current text of the Bill that would allow for a surrogate mother to consent to a child born as a result of surrogacy to live with the intending parents. We had a long debate about this on Committee Stage and we have given it serious consideration. However, the provision in the Bill is an important one, taken in conjunction with the...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The very fact that the Minister is saying he will look at it again in three year's time indicates uncertainty about what is being proposed. The two provisions I have referred to are very vague. If the surrogate mother consents to the child being cared for by the intending parents, who does she consent to and who oversees that? If she changes her mind, and she may do this a number of times,...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Thinking that it may be something that should be looked at in three years is simply to keep an open mind in the same way that we have numerous amendments on Report Stage that came out of amendments tabled by Deputies Cullinane, Shortall and others and the Committee Stage debate. I am trying to do this in a collaborative approach. That is the only reason I am referencing that any of these...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I would be happier to give the Minister the benefit of the doubt on that if he had agreed to my earlier amendment that in all matters the best interests of the child should be considered. There can be conflicting interests and that is the danger in these circumstances. Who adjudicates on this when there are conflicting interests? For that reason, rather than having an ambiguous situation...