Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I note also that the Government has indemnified all these big pharmaceutical companies. I know of people in my constituency, as I am sure do other Members, if they are honest, who have been affected by vaccines. I know that many young children in constituencies were affected by the human papillomavirus, HPV, vaccine and they had to fight all the way through the courts to get compensation. Why will the Taoiseach not give them some kind of indemnity or supports? We will have a debate about this Covid-19 vaccine but people are frightened for their lives because they have seen what happened in terms of a list of vaccines over the years and the damage and trauma caused to families, as well as the cost. They were pushed aside by the State while the big pharmaceutical companies walked off into the sunset. Why do those companies have to be indemnified? They have the money and the power. The families do not have the money, power or the wherewithal but they have a very sick child or other family member as a result of taking a vaccine and they have tried to prove that at a huge cost. Why will the Taoiseach not indemnify those families?

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