The right hon. Gentleman has said that the risks must have been known. Is he aware that the move to set up a compensation scheme in the Irish Republic was made before full state liability was recognised? That liability was recognised only when a second inquiry showed that the state had known there was a risk, but had continued to use contaminated blood products on the basis that, because the United Kingdom and others were using them, it could carry the risk.
Contaminated Blood
Proceeding contribution from
Mark Durkan
(Social Democratic & Labour Party)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 15 January 2015.
It occurred during Backbench debate on Contaminated Blood.
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