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Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: The only chance we have to speak on these is in the grouping. I have proposed amendment No. 88. I apologise to the Minister as I had to step out of the meeting for a few minutes. With regard to amendment No. 88, I am not sure if it is the same issue the Minister has just said to Deputy Shortall that he might be able to resolve. The current draft allows women to use these embryos in the...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: Is that on Report Stage?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: I appreciate that maybe there is an element of work there but I believe it was agreed at the briefing session we had with the Minister's officials that there will be a number of sessions. We are getting through it reasonably quickly but there will still be a number of sessions of this committee. In between those sessions we have an ability to put in additional Committee Stage amendments, to...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: In the future. Okay.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: Report Stage. Perfect.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 32: In page 19, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “Review of operation of Act 6. (1) The Minister shall, not later than 3 years following the passing of this Act, carry out a review of the operation of this Act, subject to subsection (2). (2) Where sections of this Act have yet to be commenced within the timeframe set out in subsection (1),...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: My amendment is very similar but there is an additional provision in Deputy Shortall's amendment. I will withdraw mine and support her amendment. The thrust of my amendment came from an advocate or colleague from the Independent Living Movement Ireland, Ms Selina Bonnie. Sadly, Selina passed away earlier this year. Essentially, what she was looking for was that we would recognise the...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 39: In page 22, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(d) The AHHRA shall produce a format of the AHR information document in both plain English and easy read and shall include information specific and relevant to the lives and needs of disabled people.”.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: I have the same issue.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: This is a useful time to get clarity on that process in respect of a parental order and what happens from the time of birth until a parental order is granted. We had some lengthy discussions with the Minister's officials on that issue when we got a briefing. One of the issues was the capacity of the courts to make a decision and hear these cases, and what would be a reasonable timeframe for...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: Some is the issues cross over and have impacts across both.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: I am sorry; before the Minister gives those brief answers, he is saying there will be a comprehensive briefing note in advance of a further briefing on all those issues he just listed and the other issues we raised.

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...