John Crown (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 34:

In page 29, lines 35 to 38, to delete all words from and including “procedure,” in line 35 down to and including line 38 and substitute the following:“procedure.”.

I shall not delay because I am pretty convinced at this stage that no amendments will be accepted.

The purpose of this section is to try to clean up some of the problems which occur when we have complicated laws relating to the family and pertaining to things that are technically as complicated as fertility. This particular section, as it stands, requires the prospective parents who have an embryo fertilised under the existing arrangements to give consent to becoming legal parents under the new legal regime, which at the time of creating the embryo had not yet been signed into law. Again, this is an example of ex post facto law which we should not include.