The Minister for Health, Micheál Martin, has invited the Irish Haemophilia Society for talks tomorrow about their concerns relating to the Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal.
The IHS says 79 of its members are precluded from appealing awards from the Tribunal, even though they could not have realised when accepting compensation in the late 1990s that they would need treatments such as liver transplants.
The Supreme Court recently ruled that such individuals could not take appeals to the High Court. The IHS wants the Minister to introduce new legislation to allow that happen.
The Society says infection by the State has been a tragedy for all concerned but it should not be made a travesty through a technicality.
