Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion
Dr. Thomas McLoughlin:
The regulation will depend on what happens in the European Union. I hope the directive could be amended to allow for certain types of CRISPR classed technologies. I hope that can be done quickly and that it would be harmonised with the rest of the world, so grain coming in will be exported.