Government to receive organ retention report

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

Last May, Tánaiste Mary Harney appointed Dr Deirdre Madden, an expert in medical ethics, to examine the incomplete findings of the Dunne enquiry, which was wound up by the Government.

The five-year inquiry, chaired by senior counsel Anne Dunne, was wound up by the Government earlier this year, having cost some €13 million.