Seanad debates
Thursday, 26 March 2015
Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage
10:30 am
Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
The effect of these amendments is to allow continued anonymity on the part of donors of gametes or embryos. This would run counter to the careful provisions we have made to safeguard the identity rights of a child born through donor assisted human reproduction. These provisions are aimed at securing the child's genetic identity and to ensure he or she has an opportunity to find out the identity of the donor and, potentially, to contact him or her. If we allow continued anonymity, we will be ensuring that generations of children yet to be born have no knowledge of their genetic identity. We have heard very different views on that issue today.
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