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Children and Family Relationships (Amendment) Bill 2023
- Sponsor
- Ivana Bacik · Labour Party
- Introduced
- 27 Jun 2023
- Last updated
- 2 May 2025
What this bill doesAI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Expands legal pathways to parentage for people with donor-conceived children born or conceived outside Ireland or outside fertility clinics, including those using known donors before 2015.
- Introduces 'best interests of child' principle into court decisions on parentage, allowing judicial discretion to grant parentage even where technical requirements aren't fully met.
- Grants Irish citizenship to all donor-conceived children through either parent; creates presumption of maternity for married same-sex female couples; removes age limits on parentage declarations.
Stage timelineWhat do these stages mean?
- First Stage33rd Dáil27 Jun 2023
- Second Stage33rd Dáil27 Jun 2023
- Committee Stage33rd Dáil1 May 2025
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