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Belfast Live
Health
David Young & Jonathan McCambridge

Organ donation: Delay in introducing Daithi's Law branded "unacceptable"

A delay in enacting legislation to establish an opt-out organ donation system in Northern Ireland due to the Stormont stalemate has been branded unacceptable by Michelle O'Neill.

The Sinn Fein vice president has again called on the DUP to join with other parties to restore a powersharing executive to "stop punishing vulnerable people".

The new law, which would bring Northern Ireland into line with the rest of the UK, would automatically make people organ donors unless they specifically state otherwise.

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