The membership of the consultative council is: Ms Paula Kealy (Positive Action), Ms Josephine Mahony (Positive Action), Ms Aideen Connolly (Transfusion Postive), Mr Colm O'Toole (Transfusion Positive) Ms Rosemary Daly (Irish Haemophilia Society), Ms Patricia Doherty (Irish Kidney Association), Ms Ann Broekhoven (chief executive, Well Woman Centre), Ms Mary Healy (senior executive officer, Mid-Western Health Board), Dr John Hegarty (consultant hepatologist, St Vincent's Hospital), Ms Mary Hogan (assistant principal, Department of Health), Ms Leonie Lunny (director of the National Social Service Board), Mr Dermot Morris (psychologist), Mr John Murphy (laboratory technician, Cork RTC), Ms Cliona O'Farrelly (immunologist, St Vincent's Hospital), Dr Vivian O'Gorman (chief executive of the Health Research Board), and Dr Angela Savage (lecturer in chemistry, UCG). Ms Lunny is chairwoman of the council.