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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.
