Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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Question 324: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist the spouse of a deceased person (details supplied) to establish if an Anti-D injection administered to them on 10 February 1972 came from a batch contaminated with Hepatitis C. [8896/07]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The former Blood Transfusion Service Board (BTSB) manufactured a total of 190,709 doses of Anti-D Immunoglobulin in Ireland from February 1971 to February 1994. The vast majority of these doses had no risk of Hepatitis C infection.

Infection did occur in batches manufactured during the years 1977 and 1978, and a further, smaller outbreak occurred between 1991 and 1994.

The person may wish to contact the Recipient Tracing Unit in the Irish Blood Transfusion Service for confirmation of this information. (Recipient Tracing Unit, National Blood Centre, IBTS, James St., Dublin 8, telephone 01 — 4322800).