Margaret Murphy O'Mahony (Cork South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the witnesses and thank them for coming in. We all know people who have benefitted from organ donation and I will take a moment now to remember donors and their families, who wished for the donation to go ahead. God rest those people who have passed away and well done to the families involved. Mr. McCutcheon is certainly an excellent advertisement and we should nearly put him on the television as a reminder of how a person's life can change.

Professor Jim Egan mentioned a proposed register.

Can I just get my head around it? If a person wants to opt out, he or she goes on this register. Otherwise, it is presumed the person wants to donate. I take it that is correct. With regard to the two UK registers, do many people not go on either register?