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Seanad: State Claims Agency: Motion (7 Oct 2015)

John Whelan: .... The parents taking them do not want to go to court. They want to sit down with the HSE and reach a fair and reasonable settlement. Their children have been inflicted with narcolepsy as a result of the swine flu vaccine which the State administered, albeit in good faith. It is accepted that the vaccine has had a profoundly negative impact on these young people's lives. Many of them...

Seanad: State Claims Agency: Motion (7 Oct 2015)

John Whelan: ...which run up unnecessary legal bills. This is not good for the State or the citizen. I do not wish to disrespect the Minister of State's reply but the next case coming down the tracks relates to the swine flu vaccine and the resulting instances of narcolepsy experienced in some families. Unfortunately, because of the current system, the HSE and the Department of Health are not engaging...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Vaccination Programme (2 Apr 2015)

John Whelan: ...not have to worry about the cost of medical card; education supports and lifelong assistance. This is a lifelong affliction, a burden from which they will never be free. Had they contracted swine flu they would have recovered by now. This was a terrible mistake. We should learn from our mistakes. This is the hepatitis C scandal ready to play out all over again. We should not add to...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2015)

John Whelan: ...their families? The State must put in place the supports and compensation they require.It is a lifelong illness we have inflicted on them through a State-sponsored immunisation programme for swine flu. We compounded the error and added insult to injury by refusing to meet their parents. The Minister has so far declined to meet them and the State, as a result, is sleepwalking into a...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2015)

John Whelan: ...a six-month supply of medicines. While I am a full supporter of the vaccination and immunisation programmes, we have to be very careful. We had a situation in the case of the pandemics and swine flu vaccine where the HSE made the terrible error of indemnifying GlaxoSmithKline from any responsibility. Today, families are living the terrible consequences of that decision, with children...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 May 2013)

John Whelan: ...and was putting in place a package of long-term supports for the families and the young people who have been struck down by this distressing and debilitating condition as a result of the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix. There are only 54 diagnosed young people in the county with the condition. It would not be an undue or heavy burden on the State or the Department to honour its commitments....

Seanad: Adjournment Matters.: Health Services (27 Sep 2012)

John Whelan: ..., Deputy Perry, to the House to deputise for the Minister for Health on this important issue. My question pertains to sufferers of narcolepsy that is a direct result of a vaccine against swine flu that was not only provided by the State but sponsored by it through GPs and schools in 2009 and 2010. Unfortunately for many parents this has turned into their worst nightmare. In the last...