Seanad debates

Wednesday, 19 November 2003

Stem Cell Research: Statements.

 

We need to focus on what we are actually being asked to do. The matter which will go before the Competitiveness Council on 27 November is quite narrow. It involves voting on guidelines – not the funding – which will regulate the way in which EU-funded research will be conducted in the other member states. I endorse very strongly Senator Henry's comments with regard to the need for regulation. We have sufficient experience from the overall scientific area, quite apart from these difficult issues, to know that if science is not regulated, the genie can get out of the bottle. There are totally unscrupulous and unethical people in science, as elsewhere, and unless there are rules and regulations to govern them, we are liable to go down a very slippery slope.

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