Professor Jim Egan:

The international experience is that there is a laudable downward pressure on organ donation. Donation is now a much more complex process with regard to safety and what might be transmitted, including that the organ would function adequately and whether there is risk of transmission of a malignancy or something untoward in that circumstance. It can happen where a family would wish to donate but on foot of medical complexities, it is not possible to convert that.