Organisation: PFJ

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Families in 11th bid for meeting over retained organs

A CAMPAIGN group representing more than 1,000 families, who discovered that their deceased children’s organs were retained without their consent, yesterday hand-delivered their 11th letter seeking a meeting with Health Minister Mary Harney.

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Parents hit out at €7.7m paid to organ inquiry team

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Interim reports may have stopped delays in organ retention inquiry

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Guarded welcome for plan to complete report

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Lawyer appointed to head organ retentions probe

They called it organ retention, but it was more like robbing the dead

Four years of inquiry costing €15m and parents still don’t have answers

THE Dunne Inquiry into organ retention by hospitals began hearings in March 2001, two years after the issue became a heated public controversy.

Fri, 02 Jul, 2004

Organ retention inquiry to drag on

A STATE inquiry into how dead people’s organs were retained by hospitals without consent is likely to drag on for years, it was claimed yesterday.

Fri, 16 Jan, 2004

Storage of organs ‘remains unregulated’

IRELAND is lagging years behind Britain in ensuring that consent is obtained before body parts are kept by hospitals, a support group for parents at the centre of the Irish organ retention scandal claimed yesterday.

Sat, 06 Dec, 2003

Families to sue Martin over organ retention

MORE than 700 families affected by the organ retention scandal are to sue Health Minister Micheál Martin for stress and trauma.

Tue, 08 Jul, 2003

Organ probe to continue

HEALTH Minister Micheál Martin is refusing to bow to pressure to scrap the non-statutory inquiry into the organ retention scandal.

Tue, 11 Feb, 2003

Organ families hit Martin with writs

HEALTH Minister Micheál Martin is under mounting pressure to establish a statutory inquiry into the organ retention scandal after 50 more families sued the State for damages.

Mon, 10 Feb, 2003

Families hand over files to gardaí in organ retention scandal

HUNDREDS of families involved in the organ retention scandal are to hand over files to the gardaí for criminal investigation.

Sat, 25 Jan, 2003

Parents want to meet cardinal over organ scandal

CARDINAL Desmond Connell is under pressure from parents at the centre of the organ retention scandal over his failure to respond to their request to meet them.

Wed, 15 Jan, 2003

Parents get aggressive on organ retention inquiry

PARENTS at the centre of the organ retention scandal will draw up a plan of action to break the impasse in the investigation next week.

Fri, 10 Jan, 2003

Martin unfit to hold office, say PFJ

HEALTH Minister Micheál Martin is unfit to hold office, parents involved in the organ retention scandal said yesterday.

Thu, 19 Dec, 2002

Organ retention probe ‘going nowhere’

FAMILIES intent on halting the organ retention inquiry say their concerns about it have been justified by a progress report on the investigation.

Mon, 09 Dec, 2002

Organ scandal families urged to quit Dunne inquiry

ALL families involved in the organ retention scandal are being urged to pull out of the State inquiry into the affair.

Sat, 30 Nov, 2002

Indemnity bid by hospital in scandal

MANAGEMENT of the Dublin hospital at the centre of an organ retention scandal has been accused of underhand dealings after it emerged that blanket indemnity had been sought for staff prior to an inquiry.

Sat, 02 Nov, 2002

Hospitals may be prosecuted over organ retention

HOSPITALS may face criminal prosecution in the organ retention scandal for suspected breaches of legislation governing post mortem procedures and death registrations.

Mon, 21 Oct, 2002