IT is obscene the head of Dunne Inquiry into Organ Retention and her senior legal team were each paid €1,902 a day for a job that they never completed, campaign group Parents for Justice (PFJ) said yesterday.

PARENTS whose children’s organs were retained without their knowledge or consent were angry and upset after viewing an unpublished report of a four-year Government inquiry into the controversy.

ALARM bells about the ability of the Dunne Inquiry into Organ Retention to complete its work would have rung much sooner if it was obliged to produce interim progress reports, according to Comptroller and Auditor General.

THE Madden Report into organ retention, which will be published today, is expected to put particular emphasis on poor communications between doctors and parents.

THE Government will receive the long-awaited report of the inquiry into organ retention by Irish hospitals on Wednesday.

The Government today appointed a medical lawyer to hold a limited public inquiry into the illegal retention of children’s organs by hospitals.

A €20 million inquiry into the retention by hospitals of organs of dead children may never look beyond the three hospitals it took five years to investigate.

LOBBY group Parents for Justice last night criticised the Government’s delay in making public the findings of the Dunne Inquiry into the babies’ organs retention scandal.

The Tánaiste and Minister for Health Mary Harney is reportedly due to receive the Dunne Inquiry’s final report later today.

TANAISTE Mary Harney is to bring proposals to Cabinet shortly which will allow the organ retention scandal inquiry to be completed by an expert, her spokesman said yesterday.

THE State probe into the organ retention controversy has turned into a “monumental mess” that could politically damage the Government, a campaign group warned yesterday.

MINISTER for Health Mary Harney has yet to be told when the first report by the State’s five-year inquiry into the organ retention scandal will be on her desk.

The Government has reportedly set a series of deadlines for the introduction of new fee structures for lawyers working at tribunals of inquiry.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

HEALTH Minister Micheál Martin has been accused of keeping a report on the State inquiry into the organ retention scandal under wraps.

The Parents for Justice group are lobbying the Minister for Health Micheal Martin to set up a full statutory inquiry into the retention of children's organs.

HEALTH Minister Micheál Martin said yesterday there would be a statutory inquiry into the children’s organ retention scandal but that switching to it before the Dunne Inquiry is completed would be pointless.

The cabinet is expected to discuss the interim report into the organ retention scandal today.

A team tasked with investigating the retention of organs by hospitals has been criticised by a group representing families affected by the scandal.