The Irish Thalidomide Association is calling on Minister for Health James Reilly to honour a commitment in the Programme for Government regarding further compensation for victims of the drug.
It follows an announcement yesterday that Thalidomide survivors in Germany are to receive €120m in additional entitlements per annum.
Thalidomide was prescribed to mothers in the 1950s and 1960s as a treatment for morning sickness but it caused babies to be born with physical deformities.
There are 32 survivors of Thalidomide here.
Additional compensation, announced yesterday, for German Thalidomide survivors follows recent similar increased entitlements for survivors in the United Kingdom and Australia.
The Irish Thalidomide Association is asking why Irish survivors are being ignored.
They claim the authorities here failed to remove the drug from the shelves for almost a year after all other countries had removed it in 1961.
They also say that there are issues regarding the protection of their monthly payments from the German Contergan Foundation, as the offer was never approved or ruled on by the High Court.
The Mr Reilly has previously said that legal advice to the State is that it does not have a legal liability for the injuries suffered by survivors of the drug.
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