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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: 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: 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 -
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
