HEALTH Minister Mary Harney and the Attorney General (AG) will be asked to explain to Oireachtas members why findings have never been published from the Dunne Inquiry into the retention of children’s organs without the consent of their parents.

AN INDEPENDENT audit of all organs retained in hospitals is being carried out by the Health Service Executive (HSE).

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.

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PARENTS whose children’s organs were retained without their knowledge or consent were angry and upset after viewing an unpublished report of a four-year Government inquiry into the controversy.

A top children’s hospital was sending organs to the UK without the permission of parents for several decades, it was revealed today.

Harrowing stories will be told today by parents whose children’s organs were controversially retained by hospitals.

Parents whose deceased children’s organs were retained by hospitals today said they were unhappy after viewing an unpublished report of a Government inquiry into the scandal.

FIONNUALA O’Reilly, one of four mothers who founded Parents for Justice, a support group for families who discovered that their deceased children’s organs had been retained without their knowledge, died yesterday.

PARENTS should never again face the trauma of learning the organs of their dead children have been removed and disposed of without their consent, the Madden Report into organ retention concludes.

PARENTS for Justice is urging its members to boycott the State’s latest inquiry into the retention and use of dead children’s organs.

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.

A CAMPAIGN group for families whose loved ones had organs retained without their knowledge is appalled that a major acute hospital kept a dead man’s brain for almost two years without informing his next-of-kin.