Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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471. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the future of kidney transplants; the number of such transplants performed in each of the past five years; if a second transplant hospital will be immediately designated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5631/16]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The kidney transplant programme continues at Beaumont Hospital. The number of such transplants performed for each of the past five years was as follows:

Heart and lung transplants are carried out in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and liver transplants are performed in St. Vincent’s University Hospital, where pancreas transplantation will also commence shortly. There are no plans for organ transplantation at other hospitals.