Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If the Government and the Taoiseach are to be consistent on this issue, the Attorney General should also be gone and asked to consider her position. Why is there no disquiet at the Cabinet about the Attorney General who knew as much as the Commissioner? One of them has paid for it with his job.

I previously asked the Leader about the human tissue Bill, on which we had a debate last August during which Government Members said the Bill that was due to be brought before the Oireachtas would be introduced during the next parliamentary session. The Bill covers consent arrangements for transplantation and research purposes, but the Government's recently published legislative programme states there is no possibility of indicating at this stage when the legislation will be brought before us. I seek clarification on the issue. According to The Sunday Business Post, the Beaumont Hospital kidney transplant list is closed. When an organ donation list is closed, people are effectively being consigned to die. One in ten people on life saving organ transplant lists dies unnecessarily because if we had better systems, everybody who needed a transplant would have one. I seek an urgent debate on the human tissue Bill and the issue of organ donation. As this is organ donation week, it would be appropriate to have such a debate.