Ivana Bacik (Independent)

——a 32 year old woman with multiple sclerosis or a 55 year old man with Parkinson's disease. I want to refer to a letter from a senior neuroscientist in Trinity College who made that comparison directly and who pointed out that all those patients — patients are not mentioned in this Bill — deserve as much help as possible from society and it would be far more morally wrong to close a door on developing research that might have potential. We must act with compassion, care and caution on this issue and not in an absolutist way simply to prohibit outright all forms of embryonic stem cell research.