Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Yes. The Minister also read out another paragraph which put a bit more meat on the bones.

I appreciate the Minister does not deal with individual cases but there are so few of these cases that they must come under consideration. If the Minister is looking for evidence of a history of transfusions in a case, that is certainly the position in the case of the person I spoke about earlier. The Minister stated that the HSE is considering the outcome of that engagement. Does that mean that people should be awaiting a decision or has a decision been made? That is my follow-up question. I appeal to the Minister is the nicest possible way because I do not want to be political, critical or anything like that on an issue like this that affects people's lives. I ask him to please look at this. There is a fundamental unfairness here in that ten people have this drug. I do not know the terms of the agreement with the company for those ten people but they have the drug. They have the chance of life. I ask the Minister to please give it to the other people who badly need it.