Seanad debates

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage

 

10:30 am

Photo of Averil PowerAveril Power (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I would like to respond. I understand that an issue arises where there is a dispute. If there is a dispute about whether the donor is an intentional parent or is disputing the fact of being only a donor, this would be a difficulty for the courts to decide on. However, in situations where the known donor, albeit in an arrangements that preceded the act, donated with the intention of only being a donor, not a parent, and is prepared to testify to that fact in court after the Bill has passed, I do not understand why the Minister is not providing for the court to have such a facility where there is no dispute and where we are not stripping someone of parental rights without consent and the person is willing to testify to having no intention of being a parent and is happy to have the court assign parentage to the two intended parents.

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