Human tissue Bill
Deputy Fitzpatrick asked when the human tissue Bill would come before the House, noting its importance for consent to post mortems and for organ donation. The Tánaiste said Cabinet had approved drafting of the Bill that week.
The human tissue Bill was to meet the key recommendation of the Madden report that no hospital post mortems could be carried out or no tissue retained after post mortems without consent. The human tissue Bill also tackles the problem of the low availability of organs for transplantation due to a fall in the number of donors. The lack of donors has led to bleak prospects for hundreds of people in desperate need of transplantation. Could the Tánaiste please tell me when she expects the human tissue Bill to come before the House?
