Representatives of the Parents for Justice group have effectively ended their co-operation with the Dunne Inquiry into organ retention.
Representatives of the group presented officials at the Inquiry with notice from fifty members requesting the immediate removal of documentation relating to their cases from its offices in Dublin.
A spokeswoman for the group Ms Fionnuala O'Reilly, said Parents for Justice would now concentrate on the establishment of a statutory inquiry into the retention and disposal of their deceased children's organs.
Today's move follows the cancellation by the Minister for Health and Children Mr Micheál Martin TD, of a meeting with the group which was scheduled to be held this afternoon. The group's spokeswoman said the Minister had given less than 24 hours notice before canceling the meeting.
She said the parents were "very aggrieved" and felt the inquiry which has now been underway for some twenty months has "no credibility." Several hospitals have yet to respond to requests for information made by the Inquiry.
The group also stated their anger at a decision by the Department for Health and Children to publish the findings of the interim report of the Dunne Inquiry on the Department's website on Budget Day, despite assurances by the Minister that the group would see the document prior to publication.
The group was founded in 1999 by four mothers who discovered that a leading Dublin hospital had retained and disposed of their children's organs without permission following post mortem.
