The Irish Kidney Association has expressed concern about the drop in the number of kidney transplants from living donors carried out in 2015 and said it was very disappointed that no pancreas transplants were carried out.
Preliminary figures show that the target of carrying 50 kidney transplants from living donors has yet again been missed, with the number of such transplants falling to 33 for 2015, down seven on the previous year.
The figures from the Office of Organ Donation and Transplantation show though that overall the number of organ transplants for 2015 was up on the previous year.
The number of deceased donors for 2015 was 81 - up from the low of 63 in 2014.
The number of liver transplants carried out was 61 - up from 44, and there were 36 lung transplantations - up five.
The number of kidney transplant from deceased donors was up eight to 120.
Meanwhile, there was a drop in the number of heart transplant to 16 - down from 18 in 2014 and there was no pancreas transplant carried out at all in 2015.
Professor Jim Egan from the Office of Organ Donation and Transplantation said there was a strong performance in 2015 and that the recruiting of specific doctors and nurses in hospitals to increase awareness of organ donating has paid off.
The Irish Kidney Association has said the shortage of kidney transplant surgeons is taking its toll and that a second transplanting hospital should now be considered.
