Today marks 64 years since the international withdrawal of the drug, thalidomide, from the market, yet survivors with the Irish Thalidomide Association are forced to continue their campaign for justice. As the Taoiseach knows, I have been raising the need for justice for thalidomide survivors for years. I am always assured in replies that a resolution process is under way. However, survivors continue to contend with undue bureaucratic delays and at this stage they deserve justice, compensation and a support package designed around the lifelong disabilities and evolving needs they have as a result of thalidomide. Dragging out this process has been so problematic for them. People are dying. The mothers are dying and the adult survivors themselves are dying without seeing justice. It is long past time that this 64-year saga came to an end. Can the Taoiseach update the House on the process and when thalidomide survivors are going to see justice?

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