Seanad debates

Wednesday, 19 November 2003

Stem Cell Research: Statements.

 

If we are to have legislation or guidelines, we need to make our decision ourselves. What is wonderful about the EU in this area – it is a point Ireland has always strongly maintained and sold to our people – is that in regard to ethical matters, there must be ethical subsidiarity. Do Members of this House want to wake up one day and be told that they have to have X or Y in Ireland? They do not. Although we pool our sovereignty in many areas, we retain autonomy on the issues that matter deeply to us. That is the way it should always be.

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