Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion
2:00 am
Pádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North-Central, Fianna Fail)
We will wait to see what the budget brings on that. I will move on to my last topic; it is about thalidomide survivors. I know the witnesses have to be careful in what they say because there is an ongoing process there and I am not trying to undermine that in any way. Can I clarify if there is a protocol in place that has affected the process of the unacknowledged thalidomide survivors being recognised as part of any future process? These are people whom various Ministers for Health have not acknowledged as legitimate or acknowledged survivors over the year?
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