Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)

I oppose the taking of this Bill. I seek that the Government withdraws the Bill and comes back having excised the offending sections. This is a betrayal of a small, blighted minority who suffer sickness and stigma as a result of being poisoned by the State through contaminated blood products. That is what we are talking about here. It is a dishonest Bill because consultation took place with the four organisations which are affected and the understanding all the way along that process was that this Bill would be about insurance, because these people cannot get insurance except at a very high rate. That is what this Bill was supposed to be about.

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