Taoiseach wants to share reviews into 'distressing' infant organ disposal with families

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'The Voice of Our Angels' Group protesting at Cork University Hospital about organ retention/disposal. Picture: Larry Cummins

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the disposal of infant organs by hospitals without the knowledge of parents was “wrong and inappropriate” and very “distressing”.

Speaking in the Dáil, Mr Martin said he wanted to express his deepest sympathies to the families involved. He said it is terrible that those families who experienced the tragedy of losing a beloved child or a loved one, then had that grief compounded by the wrong and inappropriate disposal of organs.