David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will ask one final question, if I may. We know this can be used to create miracle drugs and do an awful lot in medicine. It can edit DNA and people can even do that now in the back of a garage. They do not need a laboratory. Anyone can do this because it is open source. With respect to rare diseases, it can also create pathogens. That is the other, dark side of this. No one country can actually deal with this. Do we need some kind of global, non-proliferation treaty type agreement to ensure, as best we can, that the real dark side does not emerge?