Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I remind people that this is the first of a number of meetings we are having regarding organ donation. There is an iPhone app for organ donation if members wish to consider it. This morning is about raising awareness rather than having a divergence of views, and we must try to continue the excellent work being done by advocacy groups and the excellent witnesses this morning. It is important we come from our meeting today and next week championing the idea and issue of organ donation, irrespective of Government decisions. We must broaden the public perception and encourage people to become organ donors.

I thank everybody for attending the meeting this morning. The human interest stories have been fantastic and have raised the profile of this issue. I particularly thank the witnesses and wish them continued health and success. I thank Shane and Joe for being, perhaps, the celebrity advocates. I also thank the members of the committee for their heartfelt contributions. I remind members of the Select Committee on Health and Children that there is a meeting of the select committee next Tuesday at 5 p.m. The joint committee will meet again tomorrow at 9.30 a.m. for our quarterly meeting with the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald.