Bernard Allen (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 333: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is proposing to expand the prenatal screening process and implement population based genetic testing as proposed by the chair of the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. [11728/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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I have no plans at present to expand the existing prenatal screening process and implement routine population based genetic testing. If there is clinical suspicion of genetically inherited disorders then it is good clinical practice to conduct these tests.

My Department continues to keep evidence and practice in other countries under review and is actively considering the most appropriate ways to monitor new developments in screening and how they should be evaluated.