Set up cancer compensation tribunal now, urges Vicky Phelan

The Government needs to act immediately to set up a compensation tribunal so that women terminally ill with cervical cancer can have their claims processed before it’s too late, according to cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan.

Ms Phelan said she was contacted by a young, terminally ill mother of two over the weekend who feels she has no option but to go to court because she cannot afford to wait until late this year — the length of time Health Minister Simon Harris believes it will take to get the tribunal up and running.