The number of organ transplants from deceased donors has fallen sharply this year compared to 2017.
Provisional figures for 2018 show that 231 transplants were carried out from 80 donors.
That is down from a record level of 308 transplants from 99 donors in 2017.
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The Irish Kidney Association has said it was disappointing the number of transplants was down and called for more resources in the area to increase awareness and uptake.
The association is also calling for an audit system to be introduced in order to find out how many potential donors were missed.
Professor Jim Egan, director of the Organ Donation and Transplant Surgery in Ireland, expressed admiration and gratitude to those families who elected to donate and save the lives of others.
He said following the record numbers in 2017, there had been a consistently robust rate of organ donation and transplant so far this year.
Across the three national transplant centres, 120 kidneys, 18 hearts, 27 lungs and five pancreas surgeries were completed.
In addition, living donors gave kidneys to 37 patients this year.
