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"Mr President, first of all, it is important that we are having this debate, and I want to acknowledge – and I hope everyone will support me in this – Stuart Kenworthy, Phil Williams, Nick Dobrik and Craig Millward. I think we should say that, of all of the people who have lobbied me in this House, they did it with supreme effectiveness and with great dignity and they should not have had to do it. I think if nothing else we should acknowledge their work and their diligence and their incredible patience as victims to try and get their voices heard. I was hugely impressed with them.
I was watching television on Sunday night at home and a British drama called
is showing an episode set in that era with children being born with thalidomide effects. It was actually very shocking because it was very real, and I know people who are living survivors with thalidomide.
We know that there are responsibilities on the German Government, the Irish Government – all governments where this occurred – to help, and I am not sure what tonight’s debate will achieve, except this: we have a sympathetic Commissioner, an engaged Parliament and we have a moral responsibility and duty not to let this rest. It is not a big amount of money, but the principle of looking after these victims is already established. For their dignity and their patience, let us not give up after this debate but keep going on this campaign."@en1
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