Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Perhaps someone could give us advice on this. I would have thought it would be complicated to link a recurrence of cancer later in life specifically to an incident ten years previously. Where does the line get drawn? Otherwise the tribunal could go on for 60 or 100 years. The hepatitis C tribunal is slightly different because the infection and transmission was very much quantifiable and identifiable to the point of the infected blood. I am not an expert but I have a small amount of information. It would be very difficult to connect a cancer occurring ten years after the all clear had been given.