Ireland’s thalidomide survivors renew their appeal for a State apology 60 years after the drug was removed from the market
It was withdrawn internationally in 1961, and then the following year in Ireland.
“I don’t think anyone can but be sorry for the experience survivors of thalidomide have had. Certainly, as Taoiseach, I’m very sorry for the experience they have had and their families have had. It is important to say though that this is a medicine that was used 50 or 60 years ago in Ireland at a time when the State didn’t regulate any medicines in the way that it does now,” he said.
“We want to do more, and that’s why we’ve asked Kieran Mulvey to chair a process to engage with survivors to see if there’s more that we can do,” he said.
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