Niall Ó Donnghaile (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

My question is fairly straightforward. I asked it earlier in the year and was pleased to be informed at that stage that the Irish Blood Transfusion Service, IBTS, was set to carry out a review of the ban on blood donations from people who were resident in the North and in Britain during the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, vCJD, crisis, in July of this year. Having submitted this Commencement matter I received a very helpful response from the Minister for Health yesterday on the review. This morning provides an opportunity to reiterate the call for more blood donations. People should actively consider that as well as organ donation. While we have to be scientifically and medically sound to keep the system free of and safe from contamination, it has been quite a long time since the vCJD crisis emerged and there is merit in the review taking place. When will the review be concluded and is there any indication of what its findings might be?