Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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Question 270: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an investigation will be ordered into the circumstances whereby a baby (details supplied) became profoundly mentally and physically handicapped subsequent to the administration of the three in one vaccine in 1985. [10894/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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In 2001 the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children in its report on childhood immunisation recommended that legislation be drawn up to provide for a national vaccine injury compensation scheme. The feasibility of introducing such a scheme is currently under examination in my Department. This process is at an advanced stage and will be given priority in 2006. Cases such as the one referred to by the Deputy could be considered in the light of the possible establishment of such a scheme.