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Topical Issue Debate: Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme (11 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: The development of a national narcolepsy service continues to progress. The paediatric service is currently fully operational with all staffing in place. The Department gave approval for the adult services in January 2018. The clinical nurse specialist is already in place and the recruitment of a consultant neurologist is under way. A range of equipment needed for the centre is being...

Topical Issue Debate: Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme (11 Jul 2018)

Marc MacSharry: ...outcomes? Where are we now? In 2012, Dr. Darina O'Flanagan on behalf of the State, along with others in Norway and Sweden where the same vaccine had been administered, reported a proven link between narcolepsy and the Pandemrix vaccination. This is now established. A number of children and young adults have experienced life altering illnesses. Some have taken cases to the courts and...

Topical Issue Debate: Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme (11 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: I thank Deputy MacSharry for the opportunity to update the House on this issue. I acknowledge the impact on all people who have been diagnosed with narcolepsy. In particular, I am aware of a specific group of individuals who claim to have developed narcolepsy after they received the Pandemrix vaccine during the 2009 influenza pandemic. The Deputy raises issues concerning when knowledge of...

Topical Issue Debate: Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme (11 Jul 2018)

Marc MacSharry: ...steering group on vaccines which had gone back over several years. That is over a year ago: what has happened? It is six years since our own Dr. Darina O'Flanagan established and proved the link with narcolepsy which concurs with the Swedes and Norwegians who also used the same one, and yet we have done nothing. I accept there is discretion in medical cards and there are a few bits and...