Written answers
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Department of Health and Children
Vaccination Programme
10:00 pm
Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 167: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the report of the Houses of the Oireachtas on child immunisation of July 2001 which recommended that a compensation scheme be established; the number of submissions received on this subject arising from the public invitation issued in August 2007 and the report of the steering committee established by her to look at and examine the link between vaccination and brain damage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8300/09]
Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 172: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the vaccine damage steering group report will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8344/09]
Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 167 and 172 together. The Vaccine Damage Steering Group was established by my Department to examine this issue. The Group includes representatives from the Department of Health and Children, the Health Service Executive, the Irish Medicines Board and the State Claims Agency. 125 submissions were received following a public invitation in the national press in August 2007. I have recently received the report of the Vaccine Damage Steering Group and I am currently considering its recommendations.
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