Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister. I want to focus on a specific suggested amendment from the Irish Kidney Association. It is about the statutory responsibility for organ donor awareness. Could we have a conversation on that? Organ donation in general requires huge public trust and confidence. We exist in a climate where there is much misinformation. It speaks to the issue of managing misinformation. I am trying to get a read from the Minister and Department on who would own the process of communicating with the public and ensuring there was public trust and confidence. We have been given an example of how it was treated in the Welsh legislation, where not only was it handed to somebody as a statutory elements to be responsible for, and presumably funded in that regard, but there was also active outreach to local health boards. For us, I presume it would be CHOs or the next rung up. The outreach was about resourcing skills or competencies on the ground. What would the Department's approach to that be? It seems to me that it is one of the problems we might face once this legislation is in place.