Ms Patsy Carr:

What the Deputy has is the number of 23 people who are taking cases. There are six people in receipt of payments through the Department of Health. There is one person who has not accepted payments from the Department. The unacknowledged include a total of 30 people who have not had a causation linked with thalidomide. A number of people went through the Irish Thalidomide Medical Assessment Board in 1975 but did not meet the criteria. In about 2013 the Department paid for them to travel to be assessed in Sweden where they did not meet the criteria.