Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2024-06-26
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Malachai O'Hara (GP), Administrative Panel

I will push back on that a little. I appreciate what Senator Keogan said on fostering. However, the reason we have a higher bar for fostering is not just that it involves children but because they are vulnerable children. That is why we do that piece of work. Not every child who is born necessarily becomes vulnerable. Children are born in safe, loving, supportive, caring and nurturing environments, and we want to create more of those. We want to create circumstances in which more and more of our children are in those environments. The reason it happens for foster children is that they are particularly vulnerable. We need to differentiate that and tease that difference out. I appreciate the work Senator Keogan has done. I just wanted to make that point.

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Sitting date: 2024-06-26