Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Back in 2020, the recommendation was that a vaccine injury scheme should be introduced as a matter of urgency. The Minister knows that there is a culture of fighting claims within the State Claims Agency and the health profession. There are parents who have been advocating on behalf of disabled children for more than 50 years and the doors have been slammed in their faces by the health profession telling them it is all in their heads.

The Minister's predecessor, in the 1980s, paid a £10,000 compensation package to get parents to shut up in relation to this. It is not good enough that decades later we are still talking about another report, another review and no action.

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