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The Registration of Births and Deaths (Ireland) Act 1863 Form B required deaths and the cause of death to be registered in Ireland.

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An article "Death certificates hide AIDS truth" published in The Doctor quoted a specialist in community medicine as saying that doctors were not recording AIDS because they did not want to upset relatives.

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Amanda Patton recalled in her written statement, her mother "saying to the doctor after [her brother] Simon's death that nothing mentioning 'AIDS' should go on his death certificate."

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A written statement of a family member of an infected person said they didn't understand why an inquest was required. However the post-mortem report did comment: "The likely cause of the Hepatitis C infection was multiple transfusions of FFP [fresh frozen plasma] (for hypogammaglobulinaemina)."

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Janet Kenny described in her witness statement that her son was "adamant" that Hepatitis C should be recorded on her husband's death certificate.

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Carol Betts described in her written statement that after her brother John died of HIV, the "Coroner's Office called to say that they had put [bronchopneumonia] instead of HIV, apparently to avoid the stigma associated with HIV."

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Peter Buckland made a written statement regarding the death of his son, Mark Buckland, from vCJD transmitted by transfusion following surgery.

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Arthur Hopper (HM Deputy Coroner) wrote a letter to Dr Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State, regarding the inquest he conducted into Mark Adam Buckland's death and expressed concern that the deceased was not informed of the risks he faced at the earliest possible stage.

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The Death Certificate of Mark Adam Buckland noted his cause of death as: "the result of infection with variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease prion agent transmitted to him by transfusion of vCJD infected blood on surgery in September 1997".

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In the Summing up of the Inquest into the death of Mark Adam Buckland (who was not advised for 3 years that he had been the recipient of infected blood), the coroner said even though the circumstances did not trigger any statutory duty in the Coroner's Rules, that he would be writing to the relevant agencies that failed to inform the deceased.

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An inquest reached a narrative verdict that: "Mark Adam Buckland died as the result of infection with variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease prion agent transmitted to him by transfusion of vCJD infected blood on surgery in September 1997".

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A woman recalled that her mother's request that a post-mortem be carried out to investigate her father's death was refused because he had hepatitis, and it would
require the room to be fumigated. His cause of death was recorded solely as leukaemia.

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Fiona Weeks' sister died of HIV and she stated: "[The doctor] asked me what I wanted the death certificate to say. I didn't understand. He said he could put the illness that killed her on the certificate instead of AIDS but that if anyone asked he would have to tell them it was AIDS related."

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In an email chain discussing a "Telegraph" article about a post-mortem which was carried out on a man with haemophilia which found the vCJD prion in his spleen, it was held that an update should be urgently sent to people with bleeding disorders saying that "

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Professor Ironside reported to the HCDO the first positive result detecting the abnormal prion protein found in vCJD in a spleen sample from a patient included in the DH-funded prevalence study of vCJD infection in haemophilia.

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In Sir Ian Kennedy's statement he said that lack of scientific evidence that vCJD was transmitted by blood transfusion at the time was "crucial". If such evidence became available, recipients should be identified and notified, since at that point their futures would be wholly changed, and they were entitled to know that.

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In Dr Connor's written statement she remarked that, by 2014, the threshold was revised so that only patients who had received transfusions donated by an aggregate total of 300 or more donors were to be considered at risk for public health purposes.

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In Dr Connor's written statement, she said that by 2013, 11 patients who had received transfusions from more than 80 donors and were due to undergo surgery had been identified.

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The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee advised the Government take a more precautionary approach to both vCJD risk mitigation and blood safety more generally in order to safeguard against future infections.

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The National CJD Research & Surveillance Unit Annual Report stated that no new case of vCJD had been identified since 2016.

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