Gay Mitchell (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 160: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if funds provided by the Irish taxpayer are used as part of EU funding for projects involving the derivation and use of human embryonic stem cells in other EU member states. [27747/05]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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My colleague the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Martin, has lead responsibility for the EU Seventh Research Framework Programme under which the issue of funding for research of this kind may arise. The work of the commission on assisted human reproduction is directly related to this issue and I was pleased to receive its report last May. As I indicated at that time, the Government has decided to refer the report to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children; this will allow for further public and political consideration of the complex issues involved. After this process, the Government will make decisions on the regulation of assisted human reproduction in Ireland on the basis of both the commission's and the Oireachtas committee's reports.