Seanad debates

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage

 

10:30 am

Photo of John CrownJohn Crown (Independent) | Oireachtas source

What happens if I am right and they are all wrong? What happens if sperm donations pretty much end and we do not have a pool of legally registered non-anonymous donors providing sperm for people whose only recourse and opportunity for pregnancy is artificial insemination by donor? What happens if there is no supply? What if somebody comes to me crying their eyes out because I have made them or their partner infertile, and says "We want to go abroad because there are places where we can get this done anonymously"? Is the Senator proposing that I be fined €70,000 because the system here failed and there is no other opportunity for somebody to access donor sperm in a more liberal environment? The amendment is becoming punitive at this stage.

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