Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
General Scheme of the Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination, and Public Display) Bill 2018: Discussion
Mr. Mark Murphy:
Deputy O'Reilly referred to the transplant nurses in Beaumont Hospital. They would not be involved in the organ donation process as it was deemed inappropriate for them to be discussing things with the donor family because they would have a knowledge of who the potential recipients would be. Organ Donation and Transplant Ireland, ODTI, is the resource that will talk to the donor families and the transplant nurses will do their daily job in Beaumont Hospital where, previously, they did the other job too. That is the infrastructure and they were not replaced.