Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledge that the Deputy has raised this important question. All of us know from our personal lives or from our constituents that a large number of people have to spend a lot of money to access IVF treatment. The Government's objective is to legislate for it. We do not have any legislation governing assisted human reproduction in Ireland. It is an unregulated area, which is far from ideal because people can be exploited on occasions and we want to make sure we bring in some form of funding for it. There is already some support in that medicines and clinical expenses can be offset against income tax but that is only 20%. I believe the legislation has gone to pre-legislative scrutiny but we do not have a date for publication.

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