164 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the lifelong monthly compensatory payment to the 32 acknowledged Thalidomide survivors is linked to social welfare scales, despite the sustained objections made by an association (details supplied) because of the declining health of the survivors, and the fact that the payments have not been increased; if she will confirm that these payments will not be abolished and that, as a symbolic gesture, to ensure the Christmas payment will also be maintained because the normal payments have been so low; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19160/09]

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164 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the lifelong monthly compensatory payment to the 32 acknowledged Thalidomide survivors is linked to social welfare scales, despite the sustained objections made by an association (details supplied) because of the declining health of the survivors, and the fact that the payments have not been increased; if she will confirm that these payments will not be abolished and that, as a symbolic gesture, to ensure the Christmas payment will also be maintained because the normal payments have been so low; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19160/09]

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