Twice as many children were infected with HIV during the contaminated blood scandal than were previously thought - and evidence from a senior Irish figure has vindicated campaigners who spent years pushing the Government for answers.
Jesmond's Carol Grayson, who lost her husband and brother-in-law to HIV they contracted due to the NHS treatment they were given for haemophilia, welcomed what she called "the most important" evidence from Brian O'Mahony - chief executive of the Irish Haemophilia Society.
Mr O'Mahony gave evidence about the Irish approach to compensation to victims of the scandal - and highlighted how the Irish Government agreed to pay compensation to victims of the scandal there out of "moral obligation and nothing else". In correspondence with the UK Government in the 1990s and 2000s, Carol and other campaigners were wrongly told that the Irish situation was different and it was used as reason as to why the UK Government did not follow their counterparts over the Irish sea and pay out.
