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Enacted Dáil
No. 29 of 2022

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022

Public bill · Government · Presented

Ireland would, for the first time, get a full legal framework for fertility treatment, embryo research and surrogacy. It would create a new regulator to licence clinics and researchers, set rules on consent, storage, screening, counselling, embryo transfer, donor use, genetic testing and sex selection, and allow carefully controlled surrogacy in non-commercial cases with prior approval. It would also give people born through assisted reproduction or surrogacy clearer rights to information about their genetic and gestational origins, while introducing penalties for unlicensed or unsafe practice.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to regulate the provision of any treatment or procedure, including such treatment or procedure for the purposes of surrogacy within or, in relation to certain persons connected with the State, outside the State, that involves the handling of gametes, embryos or tissues, or any combination thereof, for the purposes of establishing, or preserving the possibility of establishing, a pregnancy (to be known as “AHR treatment”) and, to that end, to prohibit a person from providing, within the State, AHR treatment unless the person holds a licence, granted by a body established by this Act, to be known as “An tÚdarás Rialála um Atáirgeadh Daonna Cuidithe” or, in the English language, the “Assisted Human Reproduction Regulatory Authority” (otherwise referred to in this Act as the “AHRRA”), authorising the person to provide the AHR treatment concerned; to regulate research involving embryos, the derivation, collection, storage or use of embryonic stem cells or stem cell lines or the derivation, collection, storage or use of induced pluripotent stem cells or stem cell lines (to be known collectively as “ESC research”), and, to that end, to prohibit a person from undertaking ESC research unless the person holds a licence, granted by the AHRRA, authorising the person to undertake the ESC research concerned; to provide certain rights for a person born as a result of AHR treatment to access information concerning his or her origins; to provide for a comprehensive regulatory scheme (including the suspension or revocation of licences granted under this Act and the imposition of, inter alia, pecuniary sanctions on holders, or certain former holders, of licences) overseen by the AHRRA; to provide for consequential and other amendments to other enactments; and to provide for related matters.

Last updated 11 September 2024

Sponsor
  • Minister for Health Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages
    Seanad
  • Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages
    Dáil
  • Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
    Select Committee on Health
  • Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
    Select Committee on Health
  • Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage
    Select Committee on Health
  • Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Referral to Select Committee
    Dáil

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