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Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: My questions are for our guests from the Department of Foreign Affairs. Some of them kind of tie in with the questions Deputy Higgins asked in respect of citizenship. I refer to situations where the biological intended father is not an Irish citizen but the other intended parent is. Obviously, that has to go into a process. What happens in a situation such as that if the parents plan to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: It is obviously a matter that is coming up and that we do need to consider in the context of those safeguards anyway. My other question relates to passports. Am I correct that a surrogate mother, as the legally recognised mother of the child, is the guardian under Irish law but if she is married, her husband is joint guardian? That does not naturally transpose in Irish law, however, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Why does his husband not automatically get the same rights that the last husband got, in terms of guardianship?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: So it is a presumption of parentage. Sorry for interrupting; I am trying to figure it out in my head.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Is that in legislation, and not in the Constitution or anything?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: The presumption is written into legislation in relation to a woman being married and carrying a child that the husband is automatically the father of the child.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Okay. That is interesting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: It impacts differently now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I had not considered we needed to look, within this area, at the presumption of guardianship to a non-biological husband of a surrogate. I have a question on the comment that mostly it is after the fact that the Department comes in. Should there be a register of intention so people are not waiting until after the fact? It is a long procedure for people making these decisions. Rather...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: We think of the number of people in direct provision, the delay in this and their access to the right to family life and to pursue all of this if they want to travel abroad. Let us imagine for a moment a delay in the naturalisation process of one intended non-biological parent. Under the guardianship process of the other intended non-biological parent would the child have automatic...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 2: In page 8, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “ “political purposes” means any of the following purposes, namely— (a) to promote or oppose, directly or indirectly, the interests of a political party, a political group, a member of either House of the Oireachtas or a representative in the European Parliament, or (b) to...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Considering that the Minister is willing to engage on the topic and to do some work to look at my amendments Nos. 2, 101 and 106, I am happy to withdraw amendment No. 2 with the right to resubmit.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: There is not a huge amount for me to add in relation to my amendment No. 172. The amendment is pretty much in line with a number of Senator Higgins's amendments, which seek to clear up any vagueness around the definitions of advertising and commercial communications within the Bill. It specifies that the term "advertising" would include commercial communications, that is, that commercial...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Can we speak to the section rather than the amendments that have been ruled out of order?

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: There are a few parts of section 3 that we will look to come back to with regard to amendments. A number of our amendments were ruled out of order and perhaps the uncoupling of some amendments from others may change that. I will put some of our concerns on the record with regard to section 3. There needs to be a definition of "algorithm". Going back to the Minister's initial comments,...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I support Senator Byrne's amendment and the insertion of the term "socio-economic”.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 24: In page 19, to delete lines 34 to 37 and substitute the following: “(f) encourage research, promote, endorse, evaluate and approve educational initiatives and community awareness programmes and activities, including in the area of online safety, and co-operate for that purpose with educational bodies and community awareness programmes, and otherwise promote...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: To pick up on some of that, I do not think everything in the world of online safety needs to be attached to any sort of accreditation. Again, that is placing it in a particular framework in terms of people accessing education and training and having awareness of online digital safety. That does not bring it right down to a community level where people are not engaging in gaining...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Does the Minister want to come back in briefly on that?

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I wish to add my voice to the amendment. In the context of our discussions on the use of recommender systems and so on, they very much tie in with the banning of gambling advertising and with ensuring the advertising is not as targeted as it tends to be, with the profiling and microtargeting people. The issues are related. I will support the amendment but we need to strengthen the...