Seanad debates

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage

 

10:30 am

Photo of Fidelma Healy EamesFidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I accept what the Minister has said. Both the Minister for Justice and Equality and the Minister for Health have shown a lot of initiative in this area. She is right to say there have been gaps and that there has been a need for a lot of regulation and safeguards for a long time. Again, I go back to the fundamental point that assisted human reproduction is the broad umbrella of which donor-assisted human reproduction is a subsection. We are putting the cart before the horse. To me, it looks as though we are facilitating the same-sex marriage referendum, and that is the reason.

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