Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2024-06-20
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Mary Seery Kearney (FG), Nominated by the Taoiseach

In regard to the possibility, I want to give a piece of information to Senator Mullen about Nordic countries and donor gametes. The fact is that couples can have their own ethnicity, be that Asian or any other ethnicity, reflected in the choice of donor when they go into fertility services. There is a range here. Lest anything remain on the record of the House to imply that everybody is going for a particular racial profile, that is not what goes on actually. The services are offered, and the storage happens to be, because of an ethical perspective in some of the Nordic countries, that they work with Ireland. It would be wrong to presume that any donors fall into a particular classification of Caucasian or otherwise.

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