Catherine Byrne (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The process must involve education. This question may have been asked but is there any reluctance to authorise donations because of religious beliefs? What kind of work is done in colleges and workplaces to promote organ donation? Families who have gone through the process of giving consent should be given appropriate medical information, especially if people must give permission to switch off the machine. Somebody has mentioned that nurses are the first port of call and I remember that clearly. We were brought into a room and although I do not know if the nurse was trained in such matters, there was a sense of compassion in what she was doing which helped in the long run.