7 Mr. Cowen asked the Minister for Health the reason for the continuing delay in introducing the optional HIV testing programme which was promised in Dáil Éireann in December 1996 and was due to commence in January 1997; and the reason the terms of reference for the tribunal to investigate the HIV infection of blood and blood products and the hepatitis C infection of transfusees, haemophiliacs and others have not been brought forward in spite of the commitment by him in January 1997 that these would be urgently brought forward once the Finlay Report was published at the start of March 1997. [12307/97]

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7 Mr. Cowen asked the Minister for Health the reason for the continuing delay in introducing the optional HIV testing programme which was promised in Dáil Éireann in December 1996 and was due to commence in January 1997; and the reason the terms of reference for the tribunal to investigate the HIV infection of blood and blood products and the hepatitis C infection of transfusees, haemophiliacs and others have not been brought forward in spite of the commitment by him in January 1997 that these would be urgently brought forward once the Finlay Report was published at the start of March 1997. [12307/97]

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1. 7 May 1997

   Priority Questions. - Infected Blood and Blood Products.

   7 Mr. Cowen asked the Minister for Health the reason for the continuing delay in introducing the optional HIV testing programme which was promised in Dáil Éireann in December 1996 and was due to commence in January 1997; and the reason the terms of reference for the tribunal to investigate the HIV infection of blood and blood products and the hepatitis C infection of transfusees, haemophiliacs and others have not been brought forward in spite of the commitment by him in January 1997 that these would be urgently brought forward once the Finlay Report was published at the start of March 1997. [12307/97]

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