Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am conscious that if one goes into community-based drug clinics, there are signs displayed throughout them advising people to wash their hands and to be very careful. There is always the chance of a person getting a cut and the virus being passed on in that way.

On the fact that there may be no outward sign that people have the virus, most people would think someone who has contracted hepatitis C would have a yellow skin tone or a tan colour but that is not necessarily the case.