Seanad debates

Monday, 30 March 2015

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages

 

2:30 pm

Photo of Rónán MullenRónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 122:



In page 113, after line 18, to insert the following:
“SCHEDULE
Section 27
PART 1

Prohibited Degrees of Relationship between Donor and Intending Parent
The operator of a DAHR facility shall not use or permit to be used in a DAHR procedure a gamete or an embryo provided by a donor where the donor of that gamete or embryo, as the case may be, and the intending parent or any one of the intending parents, as the case may be, or the spouse, civil partner or cohabitant, as the case may be, of the intending parent are within the prohibited degrees of relationship as set out below. Relationships should be construed as including relationships in the half-blood (e.g. sibling includes a sibling where there is only one parent in common, etc.), and all the relationships include relationships and former relationships by adoption.

Prohibited degrees of relationship with respect to the intending parent

Donor is a parent of the intending parent

Donor is a brother or sister of the intending parent.

Donor is a son or daughter of the intending parent.

Donor is a grandson or granddaughter of the intending parent.

Donor is a brother or sister of a parent of the intending parent.

Donor is a son or daughter of a brother or sister of the intending parent.
PART 2

Prohibited Degrees of Relationship between Donor and Spouse, Civil Partner or Cohabitant of Intending Parent
The operator of a DAHR facility shall not use or permit to be used in a DAHR procedure a gamete or an embryo provided by a donor where the donor of that gamete or embryo, as the case may be, and the spouse, civil partner or cohabitant, as the case may be, of the intending parent or any one of the intending parents, as the case may be, are within the prohibited degrees of relationship as set out below. Relationships should be construed as including relationships in the half-blood (e.g. sibling includes a sibling where there is only one parent in common, etc.), and all the relationships include relationships and former relationships by adoption.

Prohibited degrees of relationship with respect to the intending parent

Donor is a parent of the spouse, civil partner or cohabitant of the intending parent.

Donor is a brother or sister of the spouse, civil partner or cohabitant of the intending parent.

Donor is a son or daughter of the spouse, civil partner or cohabitant of the intending parent.

Donor is a grandson or granddaughter of the spouse, civil partner or cohabitant of the intending parent.

Donor is a brother or sister of a parent of the spouse, civil partner or cohabitant of the intending parent.

Donor is a son or daughter of a brother or sister of the spouse, civil partner or cohabitant of the intending parent.”.

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