The Taoiseach has said that consultations are taking place to see if the terms of reference of the Lindsay Tribunal should be changed. The consultations are between the Minister for Health, the Attorney General and the Lindsay Tribunal.
The changes being sought are to allow the Tribunal investigate pharmaceutical companies based abroad. Bertie Ahern said that there was evidence that the majority of those that got Hepatitis C had got it from blood products that had been imported.
Labour's Liz McManus said that the Minister for Health, Mícheal Martin, must change the Tribunal's terms of reference to allow it to investigate the role of international pharmaceutical companies in the supply of blood products that may have led to the infection of Irish haemophiliacs.
Deputy McManus said that the new material disclosed in the RTÉ programme "Bad Blood" provided compelling evidence of a shocking degree of recklessness on the part of some companies".
She said that any inquiry that does not look into this area would be "incomplete and unsatisfactory".
