5 Mr. Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the instances that have occurred involving patients undergoing blood transfusions during 1997 receiving transfusions of a different blood type from their own or being given the wrong blood product due to a failure of proper practices and procedures by either the Blood Transfusion Service Board or any hospital in the State; the reason the recommendation made by the Finlay report to ensure a proper reporting system of such incidents has not been implemented; and the steps, if any, taken to avoid the recurrence of similar incidents in future. [10390/98]

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5 Mr. Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the instances that have occurred involving patients undergoing blood transfusions during 1997 receiving transfusions of a different blood type from their own or being given the wrong blood product due to a failure of proper practices and procedures by either the Blood Transfusion Service Board or any hospital in the State; the reason the recommendation made by the Finlay report to ensure a proper reporting system of such incidents has not been implemented; and the steps, if any, taken to avoid the recurrence of similar incidents in future. [10390/98]

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