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Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: Sorry Senator, you were asked to apologise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: It is very simple. It is one sentence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: Sorry, I am going to have to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: Senator, under Standing Order 113 I am going to ask you to leave the meeting now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: Senator Keogan-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: -----under Standing Order 113 you are asked to leave the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: Senator, you are being asked to leave the meeting in accordance with Standing Order 113.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: Nobody is asking you to apologise to the committee-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: -----we are asking you to apologise to one of the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: Okay, the meeting is suspended.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: The meeting is suspended.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: I apologise to our witnesses on behalf of the committee. It is never our intention to be in any way hurtful, disrespectful or inappropriate. Of course, we are in Parliament where people will have different views and people will regularly debate those views, but always in a respectful and appropriate manner. That is the way any debate should be carried out. I also apologise to people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: I call Senator Seery Kearney.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: No problem. I call Ms Bonnie to address Senator Seery Kearney's query regarding the issue of reproductive justice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: Does Ms Cohalan want to share the questions? There is a question there for everybody. I am conscious that Ms von Meding has not had the opportunity to come in. Does she want to come first?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: Does Ms O'Connell wish to speak? Anybody who wants to jump in may do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: We are tight on time but I invite the witnesses to come back in on some of those points.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the witnesses. Unfortunately we are out of time. As I said at the beginning of the meeting, we appreciate the witnesses coming before the committee to tell their very personal stories. I was delighted to hear Mr. Kenny Moore mention the Canadian model. He spoke about it at a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: I wish to remark on how Ms Gamble said that what mattered to children was "not the number or gender of their parents but the quality of their parental attachments". I agree. We have many different family dynamics in our modern society. I liked her comment. I wish to ask about the pre-birth and post-birth models, which arose in our discussions last week. Some of this discussion has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: I agree. It is an interesting point. Last week, we heard that approximately 85% of health professionals dealing with the issue in Ireland agreed with the pre-birth model and that it avoided questions over who could make a decision where there were complications and medical intervention was needed when a baby was born. Obviously, the intended parents are the appropriate people to make such...