Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

Parents of babies whose organs were sent abroad for incineration without their knowledge or consent received the long-awaited report into the scandal from Cork University Hospital on Friday. These parents should not have been forced to wait until the report's release to find out that their babies' organs had been incinerated in Denmark and not, as they previously had been told, in Belgium. Does the Taoiseach agree that the holding back of this information was very wrong? It appears that Cork University Maternity Hospital might have been in a position to deal with the organs in a far more sensitive way but that the parents were not asked or contacted. Does the Taoiseach that this was extraordinary and that it raises questions as to whether the left hand knows what the right hand is doing at Cork University Hospital management level? Will the Taoiseach clarify whether the human tissue Bill, which came before the Cabinet earlier, will make disposal of organs and tissues without consent illegal in future? It should do.

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