Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 December 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Dr. Joanna Rose:

Unless we legislate against facilitating that practice abroad by providing funded services and clinics here and allowing for that abroad, there will be different batches of children with entirely different rights, namely, those people who are conceived abroad and those who are conceived here. Some will have the rights to know their genetic identity whereas some will not have those rights.