Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In the correspondence I just referred to, the thalidomide issue is dealt with in paragraph 4 on page 3. The final sentence states:

Subsequently the Chief State Solicitor's Office, due to pressure on resources in its office, came off record in the Thalidomide matters and was replaced by Hayes, Solicitors, a firm with an established track-record in the Defence of medicinal product liability litigation. For transparency purposes, payments to Counsel, whether on or off panel, are published biannually on the SCA's website. No payments have been made to any of the State's Counsel in the Thalidomide cases.

I will ask the secretariat to go through that correspondence and the earlier correspondence and if there are any outstanding questions from the day we were here we will ask the secretariat to submit them.