The impact of a recent Supreme Court ruling on the ability of haemophiliacs infected with hepatitis C through contaminated blood products to appeal their compensation awards to the courts long after the awards are made will be raised with the Minister for Health, Mr Martin, by the Irish Haemophilia Society today.
Both sides are due to meet at the Department of Health at noon.
The Supreme Court ruled in March that those who accepted awards from the Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal could not appeal those awards to the courts.
The court also said victims who wished to appeal their awards of compensation had to do so within the time specified in the Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal Act, 1997. That Act provides that a claim may be made within a month of the tribunal making an award or such other period as prescribed by the Minister for Health and Children.
The IHS has said the judgement will have "serious and unjust ramifications" for its members. No provision was made for liver transplants and other medical problems which members faced later, it added.
