The Minister for Health has said no decision on a second tribunal into the Hepatitis C scandal will be taken at cabinet today.

The Minister for Health has expressed his surprise at the decision this afternoon of the Irish Haemophiliac Society to sue his department over the lack of compensation paid to its members who were infected with HIV due to tainted blood.

The Irish Haemophiliac Society has slammed the Government for failing to honour its commitment to fully compensate haemophiliac victims of HIV.

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service has denied that haemophiliacs suffered unnecessarily because of financial considerations during the economic recession in the 1980s.

The Irish Haemophiliac Society has lambasted a second leading haemophilia consultant in its closing submission to the Lindsay Tribunal.

The man widely regarded as the founder of modern haemophiliac treatment in Ireland has received stringing criticism at the Lindsay Tribunal.

The Irish Haemophiliac Society has slammed the conduct of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service in its closing submission to the Lindsay Tribunal.

Lawyers for the Lindsay Tribunal have failed to apportion blame in their closing statement to the inquiry today.

Health Minister Micheal Martin has told the Dail that he is still undecided on whether he should order an investigation into US drug firms which imported contaminated blood products into Ireland.

The Irish Haemophiliac Society has announced that it will launch an intensive campaign for an investigation into US pharmaceutical companies which imported contaminated blood products into Ireland.

Judge Alison Lindsay, the chairperson of the tribunal investigating the infection of Irish haemophiliacs with HIV and Hepatitis C, has refused a Government request to expand the inquiry’s terms of reference.

The Irish Haemophiliac Society is for the first time telling the Lindsay Tribunal about the crisis of HIV and hepatitis infection amongst haemophiliacs.

The Blood Transfusion Service and two Dublin hospitals should make an exception in their privilege rules to provide the blood tribunal with vital documents, according to Liz McManus.