Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent)
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1450. To ask the Minister for Health the status of Ireland’s ratification with respect to the EU Convention for the protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33386/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Council of Europe’s Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, also known as the Oviedo Convention, has been open for signature since 1997. It entered into force on 1 December 1999.

Ireland's ratification of this Convention will require the specific articles and provisions therein to be examined in detail from the point of view of their compatibility with healthcare policy frameworks and Ireland's existing and upcoming legislation. Work on these considerations has commenced and will inform a recommendation to Government.