Geoghegan blood samples inquiry

Summary

Deputy McGrath renewed his call for a public inquiry into missing blood samples from an industrial pollution investigation and asked to meet the family. The Taoiseach said he could not confirm the historical allegation on the spot, while McGrath insisted he had raised it before.

Mattie McGrath Independent

For more than 20 years, Pat and Nuala Geoghegan from Askeaton, County Limerick, have been calling for a public inquiry into the blood samples that went missing during one of the biggest ever investigations into industrial pollution. The Taoiseach already knows about this saga because he met the Geoghegans when he was Minister for Health. He called for a review on 1 April 2003 into the missing blood samples and then did a U-turn a month later and stopped that review. The Taoiseach had three meetings with the Geoghegans at the time and was accompanied by the then deputy chief medical officer, CMO, Dr. Tony Holohan. Was this review stopped at the behest of Dr. Holohan? The Geoghegan family has evidence that it was. They have written information which states that it was stopped by the then deputy CMO. It is 20 years later and the Geoghegans are outside the gate today protesting. Will the Taoiseach meet them and listen to them? Will he carry out the review he promised nearly 20 years ago, please?

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