Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2025-11-26
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

The lifelong package is there. We have a liaison person from the HSE and there is an office working with survivors and victims of the thalidomide drug. It is substantial. No one wants to get this concluded more quickly than I do, and indeed the Tánaiste and others do. We met recently with the group. We had a very good meeting. We will be meeting again in early December. We had set up a mediation process and a judge was appointed. I do not want to say too much in public, but I will put it this way. I am annoyed, quite frankly, about the pace of this. I will say no more, but there are issues that have delayed this and that I have concerns about.
I articulated that to the group. We agreed we want to progress this as quickly as possible and I think we can.

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Sitting date: 2025-11-26