Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022 (Bill 29 of 2022)
Bill entitled an Act to regulate the provision of any treatment or procedure, including such treatment or procedure for the purposes of surrogacy within the State, that involves the handling of gametes or embryos, or both, for the purposes of establishing a pregnancy (to be known as “AHR treatment”) and, to that end, to prohibit a person from providing AHR treatment unless the person holds a licence, granted by a body established by this Act, to be known as the “Assisted Human Reproduction Regulatory Authority” (otherwise referred to in this Act as the “AHRRA”), authorising the person to provide the AHR treatment concerned; to regulate research involving embryos, the derivation, collection, storage or use of embryonic stem cells or stem cell lines or the derivation, collection, storage or use of induced pluripotent stem cells or stem cell lines (to be known collectively as “ESC research”), and, to that end, to prohibit a person from undertaking ESC research unless the person holds a licence, granted by the AHRRA, authorising the person to undertake the ESC research concerned; to provide certain rights for a person born as a result of AHR treatment to access information concerning his or her origins; to provide for a comprehensive regulatory scheme (including the suspension or revocation of licences granted under this Act and the imposition of, inter alia, pecuniary sanctions on holders, or certain former holders, of licences) overseen by the AHRRA; to provide for consequential amendments to other enactments; and to provide for related matters.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2022/29/
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Rejected on September 11, 2022
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