Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if his Department will put in place immediately a compensation scheme for all persons who were brain damaged by vaccines administered in this State as recommended by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children as a matter of urgency in its July 2001 report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12452/04]

Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a period of two years has elapsed since the Irish Vaccine Injury Campaign was promised that a compensation scheme for all persons who were brain damaged by vaccines administered in this State would be set up without indication of such a scheme being set up in the immediate future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12453/04]

Marian Harkin (Sligo-Leitrim, Independent)
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Question 194: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the compensation scheme will be put in place for all persons who were brain damaged by vaccines administered in this State, following the recommendations of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children report of July 2001 that this compensation scheme should be put in place as matter of urgency. [12480/04]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 190, 191 and 194 together.

The matters raised by the group concerned at the meeting in April 2002 were considered by my Department. A preliminary review of the schemes in place in a number of other countries was subsequently undertaken by my Department; this preliminary review involved a general overview of details of schemes in place in a number of other countries. This review was done in order to establish general details of schemes already in existence; however, a detailed examination of such schemes has not yet been undertaken.

My Department is keeping the position in relation to the possible establishment of an alleged vaccine damage compensation scheme under review.