Seanad debates
Thursday, 26 March 2015
Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage
10:30 am
John Crown (Independent) | Oireachtas source
My amendment is related to the previous amendment which I suggested. This amendment would ensure that information that pertains to failed attempts at fertility treatments, such as miscarriages or perhaps terminations, is destroyed. The argument is the same as for the previous amendment but it provides for the fact that the Minister has been notified about a pregnancy that was as a result of a DAHR procedure but which pregnancy was not successful. Thereafter, once the Minister has been informed, I cannot believe there is any reason for any of that patient's personal records to be retained and they should be destroyed. If it is the Minister's responsibility to get the records, it should be the Minister's responsibility to see that they are destroyed.
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