An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Seanad Éireann — 2025-05-08
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Aidan Davitt (FF), Industrial and Commercial Panel

I ask our Acting Leader, the very experienced Senator O'Reilly, if he would invite the Minister for Health to the House. I am raising the issue of genetic testing in Ireland. We have no clear plan and most genetic testing in Ireland is carried out abroad, which is a great scandal for this country. We had a proposed plan that this would be comprehensively considered and dealt with before March of this year. Needless to say, that has not come to fruition. A national service must be implemented. We have to have a strategy and a plan. We are relying on other countries, often far away. People will understand such travel is not ideal for genetic testing. I would appreciate if the Acting Leader could liaise with the Minister and she if she will come to the House to have a debate on this issue.

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Sitting date: 2025-05-08