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.

In 1999, it emerged that a child’s organs were taken in 1985 following a post mortem at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, allegedly without the family’s consent.

After that incident, more than 2,000 other cases came to light.