Margaret Murphy O'Mahony (Cork South West, Fianna Fail)
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284. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans for living liver transplant operations to be carried out here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47719/17]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Organ Donation and Transplant Ireland advise that there are no plans to introduce a living donor liver transplant programme. The National Liver Transplant Programme is delivered by St. Vincent's University Hospital and demand for liver transplants in Ireland is being met through deceased donors. A total of 53 liver transplants have been undertaken this year up to the end of October.