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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
