Stormont committee told it is not known what happened to vast majority of remains and body parts after use in research and teaching
The chair of the committee said Queen’s University Belfast had been invited to the evidence session but 'didn’t have anyone available'.
Under the 1832 Anatomy Act, the use of bodies of “unclaimed deceased residents” from workhouses and psychiatric hospitals for research purposes in medical schools was legal and was “common practice” in Ireland and the UK until the mid-1960s. Mr Duffy also said there were concerns, which “had so far gone uninvestigated”, that babies and children in mother and baby homes in the North had been used in drug and vaccine trials without their consent, as had been identified in the Commission’s report in the South.
“They told me that because the trials weren’t published, it was highly unlikely that I was subjected to a trial, which is completely unacceptable,” he said.
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