Bill entitled an Act to regulate the provision of any treatment or procedure, including such treatment or procedure for the purposes of surrogacy within the State, that involves the handling of gametes or embryos, or both, for the purposes of establishing a pregnancy (to be known as “AHR treatment”) and, to that end, to prohibit a person from providing AHR treatment unless the person holds a licence, granted by a body established by this Act, to be known as the “Assisted Human Reproduction Regulatory Authority” (otherwise referred to in this Act as the “AHRRA”), authorising the person to provide the AHR treatment concerned; to regulate research involving embryos, the derivation, collection, storage or use of embryonic stem cells or stem cell lines or the derivation, collection, storage or use of induced pluripotent stem cells or stem cell lines (to be known collectively as “ESC research”), and, to that end, to prohibit a person from undertaking ESC research unless the person holds a licence, granted by the AHRRA, authorising the person to undertake the ESC research concerned; to provide certain rights for a person born as a result of AHR treatment to access information concerning his or her origins; to provide for a comprehensive regulatory scheme (including the suspension or revocation of licences granted under this Act and the imposition of, inter alia, pecuniary sanctions on holders, or certain former holders, of licences) overseen by the AHRRA; to provide for consequential amendments to other enactments; and to provide for related matters.
Last updated: 6 Mar 2024
History of this Bill
This Bill has completed Dáil Éireann, Third Stage
6 Mar 2024
Dáil Éireann
Seanad Éireann
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Dáil First Stage
10 Mar 2022
Dáil First Stage
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10 Mar 2022
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Dáil Second Stage
10 Mar 2022
Dáil Second Stage
The general principles of the Bill are debated
10 Mar 2022
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Dáil Third Stage
6 Mar 2024
Dáil Third Stage
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Future Stage
6 Mar 2024
As amended in Committee/Select Committee (Dáil Eireann)
Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022
10 Mar 2022
As initiated
Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022
Amendments
23 Jan 2024
Committee Stage
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Debates
6 Mar 2024
Select Committee On Health
Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
21 Feb 2024
Select Committee On Health
Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
24 Jan 2024
Select Committee On Health
Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage
23 Mar 2022
Dáil Éireann
Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Referral to Select Committee
23 Mar 2022
Dáil Éireann
Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage