Niall Ó Donnghaile (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State. That is pretty clear. This is not a question of running ramstam into this or seeking to compromise or jeopardise the scientific and medical soundness of the blood supply. This emanates from people who may have been working in England or Scotland during this period and now want to donate blood, to heed the call from the Department of Health and from the IBTS. It is a question of trying to find a balanced and safe, medical and scientific basis for allowing more people to donate blood. I reiterate the call to the Department and the IBTS not to lose sight of this issue and keep it under review. If God spares us all, it might be something I will come back to in mid-2019.