Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion

Dr. Patrick Harrison:

Road blocks have been mentioned. The regulations that apply to CRISPR or gene editing or gene therapy for medical purposes are completely different and governed in a completely different way, so that would not apply to the kind of stuff we are doing for medical development. That is a whole different ball game.