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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
Stem-Cell Research (Protection of Human Embryos) Bill 2008: Second Stage.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-20/4/
20 Nov 2008 -
Stem-Cell Research (Protection of Human Embryos) Bill 2008: First Stage.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2009-12-02/7/
2 Dec 2009 -
Stem-Cell Research (Protection of Human Embryos) Bill 2008: Leave to Withdraw.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-20/4/
20 Nov 2008 -
Senator Rónán Mullen I move: That leave be given to introduce a Bill entitled Stem-Cell Research (...Protection of Human Embryos) Bill 2008.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
I am delighted to introduce the Stem-Cell Research (Protection of Human Embryos) Bill to the House....granting of licences to carry out embryo-destructive research on stem cells taken from embryos which...through the prohibition of unethical, non-productive embryo stem cell research....into any other type of adult stem cell, again rendering unnecessary embryo stem cell research in the...This Bill is confined to the issue of research on human embryos.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
There is a need for comprehensive debate on stem cell research, especially the merits of embryonic stem...cell research versus adult stem cell research....Stem cell research is an important area of research because stem cells are immature cells that have the...Adult stem cell research provides much potential....Adult stem cell research does not involve the destruction of embryos.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-11-19/8/
19 Nov 2003 -
Stem cells are highly versatile cells in the human organism capable of both reproducing themselves and...Embryonic stem cells are harvested from human embryos while all other stem cells are referred to as adult...stem cells....The harvesting of stem cells from embryos always results in the destruction of the embryo and this is...I believe embryonic stem cells should not be used for research.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-11-19/8/
19 Nov 2003 -
When we talk about stem cell research, we must bear in mind that there are two classes of human stem...stem cells are highly unlikely to proceed in humans while adult stem cells are already making dramatic...The controversial source of stem cells is human embryos....Extracting stem cells from a human embryo kills him or her....is a human that needs protection.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
Embryonic stem cell research is a relatively new area of research....stem cell lines....Much has been said about adult stem cell research....research but rather only to use embryos that would not in any case develop into human beings....life begins, when an embryo becomes a human being.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
The main source of human embryonic stem cells for research is from embryos produced, but not used, during...The view is also held that research on human embryonic stem cells and human adult stem cells is complementary...and human embryonic stem cell research go to the core of our concepts of human dignity and personhood...embryonic stem cell research....The preparation for legislation on assisted human reproduction and human embryonic stem cell research
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-02-01/127/
1 Feb 2006 -
Martin) Stem cell research is an area which holds considerable promise in the treatment of various diseases...Research is under way in Ireland on therapies using stem cells derived from adult tissues....cloning, the creation of human embryos for research and research that would change the genetic heritage...FP6, 2002-06, does allow EU funding of projects involving the derivation and use of human embryonic stem...cells derived from supernumerary embryos in countries where such research is permitted.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-11-19/8/
19 Nov 2003 -
The latter includes stem cell research involving adult and embryonic cells....to modify the genetic heritage of human beings and research activities intended to create human embryos...The research on embryonic stem cells is confined to those cells derived from embryos resulting from in...involving human embryos and human embryonic stem cells....Some of the research will involve the use of stem cells from embryos: this raises the question of respect
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
Senator John Hanafin That embryo-destructive research is wrong in principle because it attacks the...the news are all doing adult stem cell research....cell research despite, as he said, the clinical benefits offered by adult stem cell research....Research using stem cells got by disassembling human embryos is not producing new cures or new treatments...First, it is ethically wrong to use an embryo which must be destroyed to get the embryonic stem cells
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
However, embryonic stem cell research is an avenue that should not be pursued....value of adult stem cell research....To deliberately kill the embryo is to violate its human rights....and not deserving of protection' section and the succeeding ‘human enough to deserve protection' section...It refers to the use of embryonic stem cells as the "instrumentalisation of human embryos", in other
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2004-02-10/62/
10 Feb 2004 -
Competitiveness Council on December 3 on the Commission's amended proposal for guidelines to govern human...embryonic stem cell research within the Sixth Framework Programme, or on the alternative proposal put...situation, responsibility now rests with the Commission to examine such proposals it may receive for research...into stem cells acquired from human embryos, bearing in mind the provisions of the established regulatory...procedure, which governs research in this area.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-07-21/512/
21 Jul 2011 -
Deputy James Reilly) My Department is developing policy proposals to regulate the area of Assisted Human...These proposals will form the basis of legislation in the area of AHR and related practices, including stem...cell research, and are subject to Government approval....The judgment of the Supreme Court in the RvR ( frozen embryo ) case (15 December 2009) will be taken
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-12-09/57/
9 Dec 2003 -
Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Ms Harney): At the time of adoption of the specific research...programmes under the EC's Sixth Research Framework Programme 2003-2006, the Council and the Commission...activities involving the use of human embryos and human embryonic stem cells which may be funded under...the Sixth Research Framework Programme should be established by 31 December 2003...., with the exception of the study of banked or isolated human embryonic stem cells in culture.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
but human life did....In the time since the 1960s when stem cells were first recognised to today in November 2008, more than...70 diseases have been successfully treated using adult stem cells....There is not one single successful clinical treatment arising from embryonic stem cells....For that reason I am happy to be associated with seconding the Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
on human embryos....There is a legal vacuum in Ireland regarding stem cell research....and potential in the area of adult stem cell research, which does not represent any threat to embryos...Adult stem cell research does not pose the same ethical or moral dilemmas as embryonic stem cell research...It is scientifically much more advanced than embryonic stem cell research and it is therefore a much
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-11-19/8/
19 Nov 2003 -
activities involving human embryos and human embryonic stem cells, should be opposed by Ireland at the...The Constitution lays down that human dignity is inviolable. It must be respected and protected....He wrote that there are two compelling arguments against the use of human embryonic stem cells for therapeutic...stem cell research, wherever such research may be conducted?...The harvesting of stem cells from embryos always results in the destruction of the embryo.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-11-19/8/
19 Nov 2003 -
The aim of the directive is to introduce guidelines and restrictions on embryonic stem cell research....These embryos have not been created specifically for research....cell research....activities involving the procurement of stem cells from human embryos on the basis that the proposal...); clear and comprehensive guidelines and conditions governing research on human embryos and human embryonic
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
is now better informed on the issue of stem cell research and the use of adult and embryonic stem cells...Ironically, when we heard last week of the stem cell research that led to a young Colombian woman receiving...All of a sudden, the woman's bleak prospects were transformed thanks to the use of adult stem cell research...for stem cell research....There is a need to establish a wide-ranging statutory framework in the area of stem cell research and
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-12-09/57/
9 Dec 2003 -
The Commission presented on 9 July a proposal for amending the specific research programme concerned...in which it proposed that the funding provided by the sixth research framework programme for the derivation...of new stem cells would only be made available if proposals successfully pass a rigorous scientific...and ethical review and that the human embryos used for the procurement of stem cells must have been created
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-12-09/57/
9 Dec 2003 -
The Presidency text suggested that no EU funding should be provided for the procurement of new stem cells...or stem cell lines from embryos....However, research projects using embryonic stem cells would be eligible for such funding on condition...that these stem cells come from existing stem cell lines that were created before 3 December 2003.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
We cannot here begin to imagine the potential of stem cell research....Stem cells can be sourced from embryos but this results in the destruction of the embryo....Of those, 132,662 are papers on human stem cells....In Britain, scientists will grow human liver cells from stem cells taken from umbilical cord....embryo stem cell research.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
The human embryo has the potential to become a person or persons....The Bill proposes the banning of the creation of human embryos for research that could lead to cloning...or human-animal hybrids and the donation of human embryos for these purposes....It rules out the deliberate creation of human embryos for the purpose of research....It states adult stem cells and pluripotent cells are subject to more advanced research in terms of finding
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-11-19/8/
19 Nov 2003 -
to adult stem-cell research....on human embryos and embryonic stem cells here in Ireland, where it would be illegal as well as unethical...The letter further states: We also note your stated desire to safeguard the protection of human embryos...In my opinion, the direct intervention in stem cell research in respect of a viable embryo runs contrary...cell research on embryos.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2007-07-03/137/
3 Jul 2007 -
I am advised that, whereas stem cell research holds potential for the treatment of illnesses such as...Parkinson's, Alzheimer's disease, and spinal cord injury, scientific research using embryonic stem cells...The legal, ethical and medical appropriateness of any research that would involve the use of cells from...embryos will be among the matters examined in the context of the development of an appropriate regulatory...Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, along with any judgement of the Supreme Court in the RvR Frozen Embryo
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-11-19/8/
19 Nov 2003 -
The proposal does not aim to create human embryos for the purpose of stem cell procurement including...The creation of human embryos for research is explicitly excluded from the scope of the framework programme...The EU will not fund human embryonic research, stem cell research, where it is forbidden by a member...Human embryonic stem cells can only be derived from supernumerary embryos that are donated for research...available new human embryonic stem cells to other researchers.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
I do not support the Bill. I do not believe a fertilised embryo is a full human being....of language such as "embryo-destructive"....It is said that the money is being wasted because the results have been produced by adult stem cell research...on adult and embryonic stem cells....The discovery of the first IPS cells came out of systematically testing 400 genes in embryonic stem cells
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Debate: Joint Committee On Enterprise And Small Business
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_enterprise_and_small_business/2003-11-05/2/
5 Nov 2003 -
He said that adult stem cells are available for use in research and that the use of such cells, taken...Costello confirm that obtaining stem cells from an embryo does involve killing the embryo?...of obtaining its stem cells with respect for the dignity of that embryo?...It states that the assembly of which he is a member says it shall not promote stem cell research unless...cells which do not involve the destruction of human life.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Enterprise And Small Business
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_enterprise_and_small_business/2003-11-05/2/
5 Nov 2003 -
Senator Hanafin I believe the embryo is the smallest member of the human family....reasons of tumour formation and immune rejection, embryo stem cells are highly unlikely ever to be trialed...in humans while adult stem cells are already making dramatic advances in human trials even here in Australia...There are adult stem cells in the skin. There are many uses of stem cells, which is to be welcomed....However, research on embryos is not to be welcomed.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-13/53/
13 Nov 2003 -
Conference on 29 October to discuss a number of issues which had arisen in international fora including embryo...stem cell research, cloning, euthanasia and aspects of the ongoing Intergovernmental Conference....The European Commission's proposal for the funding of embryo stem cell research in limited circumstances...The Taoiseach and I explained the Government's broad approach to funding for embryonic stem cell research...which, primarily, has been to ensure that funding would not be available for research in Ireland which
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-11-19/8/
19 Nov 2003 -
This proposal on embryonic stem cell research did not come to the Oireachtas for scrutiny in the usual...Human adult stem cell research is quite sufficient, while maybe not as scientifically useful as embryonic...stem cell research....We can make great progress with human stem cell research and as time goes on we know that further progress...There is no evidence that research on human embryos is necessary.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
Is she further aware that stem cells can be produced from other sources, which are more promising as...material for the various therapies that are at issue here than stem cells produced from human embryos...involving the killing of those human embryos?...In the Tánaiste's opinion are the embryos in question human and, if they are human, do they have any...If they have human rights, do the human rights of the embryos in question encompass the right not to
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2004-01-27/383/
27 Jan 2004 -
Martin) My Department does not have information on the number of stem cells lines imported into the...safety for the donation, procurement, testing, processing, preservation, storage and distribution of human...tissues and cells for human application, is reaching its final stage and is expected to be adopted in...With regard to embryonic stem cell research, the need for legislation in this sensitive area is among...a number of matters currently being examined by the commission on assisted human reproduction.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
However, stem-cell research also raises moral questions, as has been evidenced by the contributors to...For instance, the Bill takes a clear legal position on the status of the embryo at a time when a Supreme...Some scientists regard embryonic stem-cell research to be a moral obligation because their work can have...The Bill does not oppose adult stem-cell research and Senator Mullen has argued that this work has great...However, other scientists say restricting the research to adult stem cells could limit the potential
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
the provision of EU funds, to which Ireland will have contributed, towards the cost of carrying out research...which involves the deliberate ending of the life of human embryos for the purpose of obtaining stem...cells from same; and the evidence she has for her statement that there is a strong risk that the Commission...will go ahead with the funding of this sort of research even if the Council votes against it.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-11-19/8/
19 Nov 2003 -
cell research....This issue is not about the creation or handling of human embryos....If that is one's stand, then one must contend that an embryo represents human life and merits protection...People in favour of stem cell research will argue that life does not begin until some time later and...Embryonic stem cell research is illegal in many EU member states.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
Some scientists take the view Deputy Bruton has expressed that adult stem cells can do what is necessary...any one of the 210 cells we have in our bodies whereas adult cells can only be used for the purpose for...Clearly these embryos have the potential to become a human being if implanted in a woman....We are talking here about supernumerary embryos that remain after IVF treatment and embryos that were...in some circumstances, subject to the guidelines, which the Commission suggests, be used for basic research
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
Bruton The Minister has said that scientists differ on the need to destroy human embryos to produce...stem cells to accomplish the positive goals Deputy Howlin outlined....Surely, we should apply the cautionary principle to stem cell research....If there are two ways of producing stem cells, one of which destroys a potential human life and one which...The argument that these human embryos will die anyway is a very tricky one to use.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
Bruton Will the Minister reflect on the fact that there is something obscene about using a potential human...life as an object for research or commercial gain?...Does the Minister agree that little dignity is being accorded to human embryos that are being flushed...away for the sake of dubious research gains?...We should explore the other available sources of stem cells, which can provide the same gains, before
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-12-09/57/
9 Dec 2003 -
The proposal as amended reinforced the stringent guidelines and safeguards for the conduct of research...activities involving human embryonic stem cells under the Sixth Research Framework Programme....further meeting of the Council on 3 December specifically to take a decision on guidelines for embryonic stem...cell research.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-10-23/200/
23 Oct 2001 -
Martin) My Department does not support the funding of research on embryonic stem cells that might involve...the creation of an embryo for research purposes....In relation to research on embryos the guidelines state that the creation of embryos for experimental...As a first step towards addressing these concerns, I established a Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction...last year to prepare a report on the possible approaches to the regulation of all aspects of assisted human
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Debate: Joint Committee On Enterprise And Small Business
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_enterprise_and_small_business/2003-11-05/2/
5 Nov 2003 -
Does this relate exclusively to research, under ethical guidelines, involving human embryos created prior...Second, it is my understanding that there can be no such research in Ireland on any human embryo as it...cell research in September 2003....The parliamentary assembly called on member states to promote stem cell research as long as it respects...Have we signed the Oviedo Convention which would prohibit the production of human embryos for research
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-11-19/8/
19 Nov 2003 -
for stem cell research and using embryos which have already been created for the purpose of in vitro...He made the same point Senator Henry made earlier that we do not know enough about the stem cells from...We are looking at stem cell research through which we can treat the dying organs of people and help them...On the other hand, we are clear that we are opposed to the deliberate production of embryos for research...purposes and the cloning of human beings, which is a good thing.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-11-19/8/
19 Nov 2003 -
Doran into the record by some party spokespersons, in regard to the embryo being a distinct human individual...There is already a ban on cloning and on the production of embryos specifically for research purposes...cell research, he or she would accept it....I deprecate in linguistic terms the attempt to assert that the embryo is a full human being....Senator Henry rebutted the contention that it is easy to harvest adult stem cells when she demonstrated
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Debate: Joint Committee On Enterprise And Small Business
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_enterprise_and_small_business/2003-11-05/2/
5 Nov 2003 -
There are approximately 200-210 cell types within the human body and stem cells are the basic cells from...The embryonic stem cells arise in the embryo very shortly after fertilisation, within the first five...heritage of human beings and research activities intended to create embryos purely for the purposes of...In addition, the specific programme provided that any research project involving the use of human embryos...on human embryos and human embryonic stem cells are established for the first time under this programme
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Debate: Joint Committee On Enterprise And Small Business
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_enterprise_and_small_business/2003-11-05/2/
5 Nov 2003 -
have promoted biotechnology in this country and no matter what any of us say or do, experimentation on human...embryos, which is at a very early stage of development, will take place....The value of the cells is that they can develop into any other type of cell....stem cell research on its behalf....What will our attitude be to the desire of patients to have treatments derived from embryonic stem cells
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
Ms Harney I am told that whatever research might be done here on adult stem cells is limited....I understand that, at present, the embryos created in vitro are frozen and stored....There are issues as to what we do with embryos that remain after IVF treatment....Some countries take the view that, if they can be used to research medicines that help cure the degenerative
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
Senator Rónán Mullen I thank all those who contributed to the debate on Second Stage of the Bill, Senators...hope and promise in the area of age-related macular degeneration, which may be possible using adult stem...cells....I am greatly reassured by the fact that no one tonight suggested that if we prohibit embryo destructive...research we would delay by one day the cures we all hope for.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-11-19/8/
19 Nov 2003 -
, in general, and to embryonic stem cell research in particular....I regard the embryo in this case as potential life....I do not see a widespread industry developing in embryonic stem cell research....I see the main burden of stem cell research as being on adult stem cells....Embryos belongs to the parents concerned.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-11-19/8/
19 Nov 2003 -
I must declare an interest in that I have a daughter who is engaged in stem cell research, or has been...They seemed to largely agree about the benefits of adult stem cell research....Even in purely secular terms, the benefits of embryonic stem cell research are not proven...., from the moment of conception, is human life....is human life.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Enterprise And Small Business
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_enterprise_and_small_business/2003-11-05/2/
5 Nov 2003 -
Senator Hanafin Germ-line research is a separate issue....The actual application of the stem cell therapy is a separate issue and there are many areas we could...The Deputy referred to a degenerative disease which could be cured by the use of stem cell therapy and...One is the actual use of the stem cell therapy in germ-line treatment, but we are dealing specifically...with EU funding for embryo research and my proposal stands.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Enterprise And Small Business
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_enterprise_and_small_business/2003-11-05/2/
5 Nov 2003 -
reflecting that this proposal is about putting in place strong guidelines to govern the conduct of the research...Various questions were asked about the killing of embryos and what happens when the stem cells are extracted...We are talking of an embryo consisting of about 16 cells, so when stem cells are extracted from the embryo
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
Would the Tánaiste accept that the broader issues of stem cell research as opposed to this specific funding...What, to the Tánaiste's knowledge, is the extent of human somatic stem cell research in Ireland?...As far as she is aware, what is the current position regarding frozen or so-called supernumerary embryos...issues to which we have alluded in terms of the ethical implications of in vitro fertilisation and research
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Debate: Joint Committee On Enterprise And Small Business
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_enterprise_and_small_business/2003-11-05/2/
5 Nov 2003 -
Senator Hanafin Like all members I welcome the benefits that could be brought by stem cell research...this back and say that the committee is not accepting it, that it is against a fundamental and basic human...right and that, having regard to the fact that an embryo is the smallest member of the human family,
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
component in respect of embryonic stem cell research is not the way to deal with it....and funding of stem cell research....cell research....On the issue of adult stem cell research versus embryonic stem cell research, I fundamentally disagree...cell research.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
It is wrong of Deputy Gay Mitchell to suggest that the reference to supernumerary embryos is a red herring...No new embryos can be created for the purpose of this research....These embryos cannot be used if adult stem cells can be used and the applicants must prove this to an...Scientists will have to share the stem lines to avoid having to create unnecessary ones....The Commission has to come back in 2005 having reviewed the outcome regarding this research.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
Ms Harney Those who favour the research in question say it can advance treatment of many degenerative...Funding will go only to those member states in which such research is legally and ethically permitted...to the use of embryonic stem cells and that they cannot use adult or animal stem cells....Researchers will have to make stem lines available to other researchers to minimise the number of lines...The donation of embryos must be voluntary.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-11-19/8/
19 Nov 2003 -
The House of Lords select committee on stem cell research found those same issues exceptionally testing...One must make a decision in regard to a viable embryo as to whether or not it is human life....cell research in Ireland because we have not yet decided whether it is ethical or not but that it was...The main research done on Parkinson's disease, both embryonic stem cell research and adult stem cell...research, has shown that the most positive results have come from adult stem cell research.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
comparison directly and who pointed out that all those patients — patients are not mentioned in this Bill...help as possible from society and it would be far more morally wrong to close a door on developing research...caution on this issue and not in an absolutist way simply to prohibit outright all forms of embryonic stem...cell research.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
Is it the Minister's understanding that the purpose of stem cell research is to investigate the possibility...Will research only involve embryos created for medically-assisted IVF treatment which are currently frozen...Under this proposal, will embryos have to be donated voluntarily by consent of the male and female involved...Will researchers have to comply fully with comprehensive ethical and legal rules?...Will research only be funded where it meets agreed objectives and where there is no adequate alternative
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
Senator Feargal Quinn I also welcome the Minister of State and in particular the Bill put forward by...He is doing all of this because of his huge hope and faith in world researchers to find a cure for spinal...Some researchers argue that conducting research into embryonic stem cells will eventually lead to a method...to grow the cells into a replacement for dead and diseased tissues....That projected outcome is the same, whether it is for embryonic or adult stem cells.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Enterprise And Small Business
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_enterprise_and_small_business/2003-11-05/2/
5 Nov 2003 -
stem cells, these are effectively adult stem cells as well....They do not possess the same plasticity and pluripotency as embryonic stem cells....The are different but they are indeed a source of adult stem cells....cell research is required....That was one of the earliest uses of stem cells.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
particularly of the Minister, I would like to put on record my support for his comments that the hallmark of stem...cells is their ability to develop into many other cell types and that this fundamental property needs...continued research and investigation if it is to be harnessed to great effect....I wholeheartedly support that view on the basis of the principle of the Bill, which is to regulate this...type of research and investigation.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
cell research....However, the point made about embryos dying accidentally does not amount to an argument....As human life is sacrosanct in our community, the argument about the accidental death of embryos does...cell research could prove beneficial....I hope that this Bill will progress to the next level.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
It is not about the funding of or legislating for embryonic stem cell research in Ireland, it is about...embryonic stem cells....Funding of €1.1 billion for adult and embryonic stem cell research was agreed when the Council of Ministers...As the Council has agreed the activity of stem cell research and the line of funding attached to it,...stem research.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
It must be clear that there is no protection for the embryo until implantation starts in the uterus....The only people in this Chamber who cannot do research into embryos in this country are the Minister...There is no protection for women who receive IVF and no protection for their embryos and foetuses....We have yet to see legislation on this issue for the protection of women....about this issue and we wall raise it with the Leader again, particularly as it relates to IVF and the protection
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
Some scientists are of the opinion that embryonic stem cells have greater versatility and, therefore,...Others take the different view that there is still great potential in adult cells....The need to use embryonic cells will have to be demonstrated. Many issues arise in this debate....One of them is the question of what to do with embryos a couple no longer wishes to use after IVF treatment...If new knowledge becomes available as a result of stem cell research, I am sure companies all over the
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
Ms Harney They can become human if they are implanted in a woman....Clearly they have not the potential to become human by remaining in a refrigerated condition, which is...They are embryos that are supernumerary, that will not be used and that are donated by the couple, whose...embryos they are in the first instance.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-11-19/8/
19 Nov 2003 -
In any event, it cannot become a human being unless it is implanted into the womb of a woman....The question then arises as to whether, in certain circumstances, one should use an embryo for research...The donor couple can decide to make the embryo available for research under strict conditions, for example..., that no money will be paid and that the embryo can only be used if adult cells cannot be used – it...The Personal Injuries Assessment Board Bill will be before this House tomorrow.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Enterprise And Small Business
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_enterprise_and_small_business/2003-11-05/2/
5 Nov 2003 -
It is correct that the proposal relates to stem cells deriving from embryos created before the specific...In effect it would be embryos that are currently frozen because cryopreservation is the way of preserving...embryos that are being used for IVF treatments....The embryos in question would be supernumerary because the informed consent of the donors is required...wish to provide them for research purposes.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-11-19/8/
19 Nov 2003 -
I attended the meeting of the committee which discussed the funding of EU embryo research....If we are serious about protecting the Constitution, we have a duty and a unique opportunity on this...Article 43.3 of the Constitution, concerning the right to life of the unborn, and stated that no such research
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
Ms Harney We are talking about embryos that will not be implanted because the donors have decided that...The embryos will not become human beings because the donors have decided that they will not be implanted
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
she did not consult Dáil Éireann before committing herself to vote in favour of the taxpayer funding human...embryo research; and if she will put the issue before Dáil Éireann prior to the competitiveness Council
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
I have read the Bill a number of times and, like Senator Alex White, I do not support it....Looking at the balances, ethically, I do not know where human life begins....to continue into both adult and embryonic stem cells....We need also to continue the research....I congratulate Senator Mullen on bringing forward the Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
A human embryo is not something like a nail clipping.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
Is the Minister aware that the Medical Council guidelines state that human embryo research is unethical...The guidelines are the only thing that prevents human embryo research in this country because there is...Given that she has said that the report of the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction is finally about
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-07-04/141/
4 Jul 2006 -
) There is no legislation in Ireland governing the intervention in the natural process of creating human...new forms of life for experimental purposes or the deliberate and intentional destruction of in-vitro human...The Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction was established in March 2000....conducted an intensive and analytical examination of AHR issues, and its conclusions derive from this wide research...of the complex issues involved and its report, along with the report of the Commission on Assisted Human
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
We have had protocols added to treaties to protect our rights in this regard in some instances and that...It is now part of the EU framework programme that up to €1.1 billion can be used to fund research on...this and adult stem cells.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Enterprise And Small Business
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_enterprise_and_small_business/2003-11-05/2/
5 Nov 2003 -
working with the European committee which outlines in very clear terms the respect for and development of human...life at all stages in this research....we have got that what is proposed is to allow, under ethical guidelines, experimentation on frozen embryos...chance to read the full report that I circulated, but it goes into the extraordinary benefits from stem...cell research.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
We do not know whether life has begun with a two week old embryo, but we know that a two week old embryo
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-05-21/90/
21 May 2003 -
the EU Competitiveness Council also introduced a moratorium up to 31 December 2003 on the funding of research...under FP6 on human embryos and human embryonic stem cells, with the exception of the study of banked...or isolated human embryonic stem cells in culture....embryonic stem cell research which will form the basis for discussion at an inter-institutional seminar...projects involving the use of human embryos and human embryonic stem cells.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-04-15/174/
15 Apr 2003 -
at the Competitiveness Council also introduced a moratorium up to 31 December 2003 on the funding of research...under FP6 on human embryos and human embryonic stem cells, with the exception of the study of banked...or isolated human embryonic stem cells in culture....embryonic stem cell research which will form the basis for discussion at an inter-institutional seminar...projects involving the use of human embryos and human embryonic stem cells.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-04-03/138/
3 Apr 2003 -
the EU Competitiveness Council also introduced a moratorium up to 31 December 2003 on the funding of research...under FP6 on human embryos and human embryonic stem cells, with the exception of the study of banked...or isolated human embryonic stem cells in culture....embryonic stem cell research which will form the basis for discussion at an inter-institutional seminar...projects involving the use of human embryos and human embryonic stem cells.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-06-10/340/
10 Jun 2003 -
under FP6 on human embryos and human embryonic stem cells, with the exception of the study of banked...or isolated human embryonic stem cells in culture....Already, the EU Commission has presented to the Council and Parliament a report on human embryonic stem...cell research which formed the basis for discussion at an inter-institutional seminar on bioethics in...projects involving the use of human embryos and human embryonic stem cells.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-05-07/343/
7 May 2003 -
the EU Competitiveness Council also introduced a moratorium up to 31 December 2003 on the funding of research...under FP6 on human embryos and human embryonic stem cells, with the exception of the study of banked...or isolated human embryonic stem cells in culture....embryonic stem cell research which will form the basis for discussion at an inter-institutional seminar...projects involving the use of human embryos and human embryonic stem cells.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-02-03/154/
3 Feb 2010 -
Minister for Health and Children (Deputy Mary Harney) For the area of embryonic stem cell research,...the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction recommended that: "Embryo research, including embryonic...stem cell research, for specific purposes only and under stringently controlled conditions, should be...permitted on surplus embryos that are donated specifically for research....The Supreme Court decided in that case the frozen embryos concerned do not have the constitutional protection
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Debate: Joint Committee On Enterprise And Small Business
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_enterprise_and_small_business/2003-11-05/2/
5 Nov 2003 -
behaviour - the same is true for eastern, southern and northern - which is whether we are destroying human...life which can happen through a war in Iraq or the destruction of an embryo....Is it killing embryonic human life if a fertilised egg is created?...I read that Professor Martin Clynes of DCU said the cells are available in the umbilical cord....If that is so, why is this form of research needed?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2002-06-25/93/
25 Jun 2002 -
The question of research in the area of human genomics is a sensitive one and I am fully aware of the...on embryos was set out very clearly at the Research Council of Minister's meeting on 10 December last...be carried out in compliance with fundamental ethical principles, particularly with regard to the protection...of human dignity and human life, in genomics and biotechnology research....intervention and embryonic stem cell research.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-09-27/437/
27 Sep 2006 -
) There is no legislation in Ireland governing the intervention in the natural process of creating human...new forms of life for experimental purposes or the deliberate and intentional destruction of in-vitro human...The Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction was established in March 2000....were: To prepare a report on the possible approaches to the regulation of all aspects of assisted human...conducted an intensive and analytical examination of AHR issues, and its conclusions derive from this wide research
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-11-19/8/
19 Nov 2003 -
the previous Government, my colleague, Deputy Treacy, dealt with the research agenda....Accordingly, the research will proceed without any guidelines....Currently, as I understand it, the research takes place in the private sector....Italy which is voting against the Commission guidelines, allow it in the private sector for imported embryos..., which may come from aborted foetuses if animal and adult cells cannot supply the requirements.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
Ms Harney —these embryos in refrigerated circumstances is not very dignified, but I do not want to...The embryos in question are those that remain after IVF treatment.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
Mitchell In Germany, one cannot create supernumerary embryos.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-26/8/
26 Nov 2008 -
This is possibly a Bill that many of us would not have welcomed because it forces us to make decisions...Just because, in the past, there have been associations of sorts with the beginning of human life with...Nobody in this House would want to take or to countenance the taking of human life if he or she thought...Therefore the crux of this Bill is very difficult to decide upon....I welcome the fact that this Bill has been introduced because it has given rise to a debate which must
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-11-20/4/
20 Nov 2008 -
Second Stage ordered for Wednesday, 26 November 2008.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-25/15/
25 Nov 2003 -
The Minister's emphasis on the cut-off date of 27 June 2002 for supernumerary embryos is irrelevant because...such embryos continue to be created....precedent is set, they will be available in due course because, by then, they will be old supernumerary embryos
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-11-13/53/
13 Nov 2003 -
The Taoiseach and I made clear the Government's continued strong opposition to human cloning....negotiations on a UN Convention which would prohibit both the reproductive and therapeutic cloning of human
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-11-06/3/
6 Nov 2003 -
Hanafin I would welcome the opportunity to debate stem cell research although it is not a subject that...Embryos are the smallest members of the human family....I would never support research on human embryos....cell research....Stem cell research should be welcomed in the same way as the discovery of penicillin.
