Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

This refers to the human tissue Bill. The Department of Health is currently advancing proposals on this Bill. A public consultation was carried out previously on a draft general scheme of the Bill, and the proposals are being revised following the public consultation and in line with legal advice. The Minister expects to bring those proposals to the Government later this year, when he will seek the formal drafting of the Bill. The Bill is to meet the recommendations of the Madden report on post mortem practice and procedures, to make updated arrangements for the donation of bodies to anatomy schools, to provide for the setting of guidelines and standards to be met in the practice of anatomy, to introduce a licensing system for the public display of bodies or body parts and to establish a legal framework for the donation of organs and tissue for research purposes by both living and deceased persons. It will be introduced later this year.

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