Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Unethical Organ Harvesting in China: Discussion

2:50 pm

Mr. David Matas:

I am happy to pass on the legislation even though only one country has enacted it. The legislation was originally in Hebrew but it has been translated into English. Proposals have been drafted in Belgium, France, Australia and Canada.

I wish to draw the committee's attention again to genital mutilation. Ireland has its own legislation on genital mutilation, which deals with extra-territoriality, and one could transfer its clauses.