Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour)

I welcome our visitors from Tipp. As I have strong Cork connections, I will just say, "May the best team win". That is safer.

I will ask about an issue I have been raising with the Taoiseach for quite some time, which he has a long awareness of. It is justice for survivors of thalidomide. Activists from the Irish Thalidomide Association are wondering what the status of the thalidomide resolution process is. As the Taoiseach knows, for 63 years, families have been forced to do battle with the State. They were promised a short effective process by him and by the Government, but it has been anything but. Sadly, another thalidomide survivor, Jacqui Browne, passed away last month. Thalidomide survivors and their families have had such long delays in their quest for justice. What is the status of the thalidomide resolution process? When are survivors likely to see justice?

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