261 Mr. Timmins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the establishment of a statutory inquiry as a matter or urgency which will investigate the distressing and sensitive issues relating to organ retention in hospitals without parents consent; the reason the non-statutory Dunne inquiry missed five deadlines for producing a report; the reason the inquiry has been allowed to continue in session for over four years without producing a report; the way in which she can justify the estimated €16 million which has been spent on an inquiry which has furnished no report or findings to date; the way in which she can justify the private nature of this inquiry in view of the fact that the issues under investigation are matters of public interest; if she ascertained the extent of hospital and health board co-operation with the Dunne inquiry; the plans the 29 hospitals which have admitted to selling pituitary glands to companies (details supplied) have put in place to contact the next of kin of the 7,500 deceased persons from whom these glands were obtained without knowledge or consent; and if she will establish a statutory Inquiry as a matter of urgency into these distressing matters. [23759/04]

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261 Mr. Timmins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the establishment of a statutory inquiry as a matter or urgency which will investigate the distressing and sensitive issues relating to organ retention in hospitals without parents consent; the reason the non-statutory Dunne inquiry missed five deadlines for producing a report; the reason the inquiry has been allowed to continue in session for over four years without producing a report; the way in which she can justify the estimated €16 million which has been spent on an inquiry which has furnished no report or findings to date; the way in which she can justify the private nature of this inquiry in view of the fact that the issues under investigation are matters of public interest; if she ascertained the extent of hospital and health board co-operation with the Dunne inquiry; the plans the 29 hospitals which have admitted to selling pituitary glands to companies (details supplied) have put in place to contact the next of kin of the 7,500 deceased persons from whom these glands were obtained without knowledge or consent; and if she will establish a statutory Inquiry as a matter of urgency into these distressing matters. [23759/04]

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