Written answers

Tuesday, 4 April 2017

Department of Health

Organ Transplant Services

Photo of Ruth CoppingerRuth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity)
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534. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expand the availability of organ transplant services for children here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16347/17]

Photo of Simon HarrisSimon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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At present kidney transplants for children in Ireland are carried out in the Children's University Hospital, Temple Street. Irish paediatric patients travel to the UK for liver, heart and lung transplants.

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