Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I wish to inform the Leader and the House that I will seek the recall of the Seanad in August. I do so for the 650 people in Ireland awaiting organ transplantation. I will be asking 20 Senators to sign a letter to bring the Minister for Health before the Seanad to explain the reason he signed a flawed piece of legislation on organ donation and transplantation into Irish law.

The Minister must be held to account and must be asked the reason he signed this European Union directive directly into Irish law without consulting the Seanad, the Dáil or the Joint Committee on Health and Children. The Government's lack of scrutiny and debate on this measure, which is the first organ transplantation legislation in the history of the State, was a missed opportunity on its part to bring Ireland's infrastructure up to the 21st-century standards the citizens awaiting organ transplantation deserve. Mark Murphy of the Irish Kidney Association has described-----