Results 1-9 of 9 for narcolepsy speaker:John Whelan

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

John Whelan: ...courts' schedule for early next year. 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...

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

John Whelan: ...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 with the families. This matter will...

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

John Whelan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House; she is representing the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar. My request is to ask the Minister for Health to sit down with the parents of the narcolepsy victims, the parents of the children who have contracted this terrible affliction and lifelong disease as a result of a State-sponsored vaccination programme. I cannot understand why the...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2015)

John Whelan: ...for accepting my Commencement debate. I am grateful to my colleague, Senator Landy, for his support on the matter. It was not an altogether satisfactory reply on the children who suffer from narcolepsy. I support Senator Landy. Will the Leader to ensure the Minister for Health comes to the House at the earliest opportunity to explain why the HSE and the Department of Health are about...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2015)

John Whelan: ...the HSE made the terrible error of indemnifying GlaxoSmithKline from any responsibility. Today, families are living the terrible consequences of that decision, with children having contracted narcolepsy. It is an important debate that we need to have. I commend the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Alex White, for signalling that he intends to bring a...

Seanad: Register of Lobbyists Legislation: Motion (26 Jun 2013)

John Whelan: ...describe as lobbying. This week, for example, people visited the Oireachtas to lobby about special needs assistants and home helps. We also received a delegation seeking to discuss the side-effects of narcolepsy. The people in question are decent individuals and families who are trying to represent citizens who have not been well represented by the State. People come here to make...

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

John Whelan: It is with some degree of disappointment and dismay that I raise the issue this afternoon once again of narcolepsy sufferers and their families in this country. On the advice of the Cathaoirleach - which was very good advice and which I took - I raised the matter on the Adjournment on 27 September last year. At that stage the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly, indicated that the...

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

John Whelan: I welcome the Minister of State, 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...

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

John Whelan: ...would not have raised this matter on the Adjournment today if the measures set out by the Minister of State were in place. Based on information I received from parents of children affected in the narcolepsy support group, that is the range of responses they seek but the required assistance is not in place on the ground. If it is, it is only available on a piecemeal or ad hocbasis. We...