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	Calls for Fresh Inquiry into Vaccine Scandal Irish Post August 25 2010 http://www.irishpost.co.uk/tabId/60/itemId/4141/Calls-for-fresh-inquiry-into-vaccine-scandal.aspx FORMER residents of orphanages and mother-and-baby homes in Ireland have called for an independent inquiry into vaccine trials carried out on children in the 1960s and 1970s. The trials involved over 200 children in orphanages and mother-and-baby homes throughout Ireland — allegedly without parents’ knowledge or consent. Sally Mulready, Chair of the Women’s Support Network in Britain, said that many of those involved now live over here. “Some 31 per cent of the victims of all the abuse in institutions in Ireland relocated to Britain. This latest topic is something that has been brought to my attention regularly by women who exactly fit that age profile,” she said. Although a substantial number of victims headed for Britain, some emigrated to the USA. Four of these are now planning to take legal action against the drugs company involved, GlaxoSmithKline. Meanwhile, survivors in Ireland and Britain are demanding that files pertaining to the trials are handed over, as well as medical reports and records. “The unavailability of medical records is a recurring theme in these cases,” Ms Mulready told The Irish Post. “And of course it is a very serious issue for anyone if their medical records are not available.” Ms Mulready, who is also Speaker of Hackney Council in London, said: “An inquiry would be ideal — but a lot of the time what would be very helpful in the short term from these various institutions is just some co-operation. Even when medical records exist — and sadly they often don’t — but even when they do, sometimes it’s difficult to get a hold of them.” In 1993, the then Minister for Health, Brendan Howlin, said that his Department had carried out an investigation into the vaccine trials and found that those receiving the vaccines suffered no adverse effects. However the results of this investigation were never published. Currently, the Department of Health is searching its archives for documentation relating to the investigation. In 2000, the Laffoy Commission on Child Abuse was asked by the Irish Government to investigate the trials. However enquiries were not pursued after court action was taken by doctors involved.
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