Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)

I am very proud to join in this renewed effort along with Deputies Ward and Guirke. I welcome to the Public Gallery the McGill Lynch family, whom I worked with in the past, and also Jim and Vera Connell, who have joined them. Jim and Vera are here because the issue has not gone away.

There was a missed opportunity when I introduced this legislation as a Senator. The Government said it had advice from the Attorney General but it did not offer an alternative. The issue is that people are dying – in this case, young people who have been given medication that has led to their deaths. The core issue is that they are not responsible for their own deaths. The medication they were given is responsible. There must be recourse in law for that.

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