Mr. Ciarán Breen:

We, the State Claims Agency, have no choice but to do that because we have to treat every plaintiff equally, no matter who they are. These are not our terms but the terms used by the solicitor for the thalidomide survivors, and these are what are called acknowledged and unacknowledged survivors. The unacknowledged survivors are those who are in dispute as to whether the foundation deems them to have suffered from thalidomide in the way they certify them.