David Stanton
Question:301 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 278 of 21 October 2003 his plans to amend the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Act 2001 (Additional Functions Order, 2001) (details supplied) which empowered the commission to inquire, through its investigation committee, into the circumstances, legality, conduct, ethical propriety and effects on the subjects of the three vaccine trials referred to in the chief medical officer’s report; if he will conduct similar inquiries into any other trials that took place in an institution during the period 1 January 1940 to 31 December 1987 in view of the fact that the Supreme Court has raised concerns regarding the vires of this statutory instrument; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19284/04]
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