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Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: My two amendments to sections 9 and 11, taken together with this discussion, are fairly transparent. They are part of a bigger issue I see in other areas of our legislation. I am always troubled by the idea that we have differential adulthoods, whereby some adults have some rights that others do not based on how far into adulthood they are. There is some paternalism implicit in a decision...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: In general, the advice available to the Minister has obviously been expert and she has dealt with some complexities. I am sorry to always cite extreme cases but a person who has become infertile in childhood as a result of treatment for childhood cancer or leukaemia or has had his testicles removed or her ovaries removed does not have to wait three years after the age of 18 years to know...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 7: In page 14, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following:“(6) Notwithstanding any other part of this Act, an intending mother may decide to use, for the purpose of a DAHR procedure, an anonymously donated of a gamete or embryo.”.The four amendments in my name deal with the tricky issue of anonymity, on which I am aware that I am in something of a...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I am not sure about the procedure for speaking to additional amendments to the section.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I will listen to the Minister's reply before speaking again.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I know the Minister means well, but I am seriously concerned about this. What I am going to say is not about the Minister, but it may sound harsh. We have effectively largely eliminated adoption as a option for people who are not capable of having children. The right to adoption has dwindled to almost nothing in the past few years as a result of the collateral effect of well-intentioned...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 8: In page 14, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following:“(6) Notwithstanding any other part of this Act, under this section, a donor may donate a gamete, or embryo, for the purpose of a DAHR procedure, or a further DAHR procedure(s), anonymously, wherein all information pertaining to them in the National Donor-Conceived Person Register, established under...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 10: In page 15, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following:"(3) Where a donor revokes their consent for the use of a gamete under this section, the donor may use that gamete for the purpose of an assisted human reproduction procedure where they are an intending parent.".My amendment refers to an extreme but plausible situation where a person has donated their own...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I will speak to the other three amendments at a later stage. They relate to a slightly different issue but they are internally connected.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: This is a different issue entirely. There is a risk that couples who embark on the process of donor assisted reproduction break up. This might be amicable but it is inevitable that some relationships will end badly. It is a feature of our legal system that bitter marital break-ups lead to very protracted court cases and custody of children has, on occasions, been used almost as a weapon in...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: It is quite possible that we could be in a situation where people’s last chance at parenthood involves an embryo which is genetically one half theirs and the other half a donor’s which, for want of a better word, is contracted under the new law. There could be a disputed break-up, perhaps acrimonious, where the consent to use an embryo rests with someone with no genetic...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: The situation we are teasing out probably revolves around a donor in a foreign country donating sperm to be used in a jurisdiction where in several years from now, he can be traced from any offspring from that sperm. I am not certain that a person in, say Denmark, is specifying the sperm has to be used by Mr. and Mrs. Smith or Mrs. and Mrs. Smith. I am not sure what level of consent that...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 11: In page 15, line 36, to delete “21 years” and substitute “18 years”.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 13: In page 16, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following:“(3) Where a gamete of an intending parent, other than the intending mother, has been used to create an embryo which is effected by this section, the intending parent, other than the intending mother, may consent to that embryo being used in a further DAHR procedure, without the consent of the...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 14: In page 16, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following:“(3) Where a person has consented to be a parent under section 11, and the intending mother has revoked her consent under this section then —(a) the DAHR facility shall notify this person that consent has been revoked, (b) the embryo effected by this section may be used in any further DAHR...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 15: In page 17, line 3, to delete “21 years” and substitute “18 years”.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 16: In page 18, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following:“(3) Where a person has revoked their consent to be a parent under this section, then —(a) the DAHR facility shall notify the intending mother, and (b) the intending mother may use an embryo affected by this section in further DAHR where the embryo was created from an egg which derived from the...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 17: In page 20, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following:“(10) Notwithstanding any other part of this Act, under this section, a donor, or donors, may donate an embryo, for the purpose of a DAHR procedure, or a further DAHR procedure(s), anonymously, wherein all information pertaining to them in the National Donor-Conceived Person Register, established under...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I do not want to fall into the trap others have been accused of in regard to making general comments on the specifics of an amendment. However, I want to record my complete respect and appreciation for the patience of people, mainly women, I have met over the years who found themselves making a harsh decision about compromising cancer care that would increase their chance of cure because...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 18: In page 22, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:(10) Notwithstanding any other part of this Act, under this section, a donor, or donors, may donate an embryo, for the purpose of a DAHR procedure, or a further DAHR procedure(s), anonymously, wherein all information pertaining to them in the National Donor-Conceived Person Register, established under...