Ms Vicky Phelan:

-----and interviews to keep this issue alive, my main priority is the other women. Apart from having to take the HSE and the laboratory to court to fight my case, I have been fighting for the drug I am on, never mind anything else. It took me nine weeks to get access to the treatment I am on because it is not licensed for my cancer. I am trying to help the other women to get access to these treatments because cervical cancer is not curable. If I had taken the treatment I was offered, which is palliative chemotherapy, I do not think I would be sitting here today to be honest.. Simon Harris has mentioned that part of the package will include access to experimental drugs, and I have pushed him on this. I have been in touch with him. He has confirmed that the drug I am on will be accessible to other women, but it should not have to be piecemeal. Most of these women are contacting me. These women should not have to be contacting me for this information-----