Seanad debates

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage

 

10:30 am

Photo of Jim WalshJim Walsh (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is interesting. I was unaware of that, just in case anyone thought otherwise. I would readily concede that the figure I proposed was an arbitrary one. If that is the actual outcome, I will welcome it. I understand the complexity of this issue, which needs to be regulated and dealt with. I applaud and compliment the Minister and her colleague, the Minister for Health, on going down that road. It would strike me that the assisted human reproduction architecture and framework should be in place to inform the parentage decisions. It appears to me that we are moving in a vacuum on parentage without having the other architecture in place. I have no doubt that when the assisted human reproduction legislation is fully discussed, debated and considered, it will have implications for parentage. I would have thought it would be much more logical for this Bill to follow rather than precede the legislation relating to the fundamental part of this developing area, which definitely needs to be regulated.

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