Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Seanad Éireann is a reforming House. It is the revising House for legislation and it is our job to go through legislation and improve it for the citizens of the country. A motion is to be taken immediately after the Order of Business on the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022. I have no idea why we need to run the Bill through Committee, Report and Final Stages on 20 June. This is extremely complex legislation that raises many moral and ethical issues, both nationally and internationally, and from that point of view it deserves time and scrutiny in this House. To rush it through on 20 June is totally unacceptable. I therefore propose an amendment to the Order of Business, that we remove No. 1, the Government business, motion re arrangements for the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022.