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A pupil was told by Dr Dasani that he was shocked at the number of different batches that were being offered to those at Treloar's.

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A pupil contracted HTLV-3 infection before 11 January 1984; he had been having daily transfusions with Factor 8 from June 1983.

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A former Treloar's pupil was unaware that any HTLV-3 test was being carried out. Despite their doctor being told in March 1985 that he was positive, neither he nor his parents were told at that time.

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A witness told the Inquiry that such were the effects of his haemophilia before he went to Lord Mayor Treloar's College that: "I think at age six I went to school for three days in the year. And then in the following year, I think I probably went for about nine days."

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Pupils at Treloar's were being examined for any signs of the "stigmata of AIDS".

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Alec Macpherson (Headmaster, Treloars) told the school about the two different types of hepatitis, information which came from the doctors at Treloars.

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A nursing sister raised concerns to Alec Macpherson about hepatitis at the Lord Mayor Treloar College around 1975.

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Alexander Macpherson said he had not thought to question the risk that blood products might cause hepatitis amongst his pupils because it was well known when he first came to the school.

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During oral evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry, Dr Diana Walford stated that it was "a fairly unusual format" to have conclusions already made within an agenda for a committee meeting. This was in reference to an agenda for the Committee on Safety of Medicines Sub-Committee on Biological Products on 13 July 1983.

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During oral evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry Dr Walford was questioned in relation to concentrates and the UKHDO's stance on the risk they carried. In response to the level of risk she stated that "the risk as they [UKHCDO] were defining it was what they perceived as the risk at the present time".

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Dr Aronstam informed the Treloar's students about AIDs and said the risk was "very small".

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In late 1984, Treloar clinicians told pupils that HIV infections were an unavoidable accident.

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Dr Aronstam stated that, "The specialised nature of the haemophiliac condition makes it impossible to win the trust of the patient unless you are seen to have a thorough understanding of the primary illness. For this reason I do not see a role for the injection of specialised counsellors into our Unit."

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In oral evidence given to the Inquiry, Dr Morris McClelland explained that he could not recall whether the SNBTS guidelines regarding surrogate testing were adhered to and he followed "National decision making" in reference to surrogate testing in Northern Ireland.

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Dr Morris McClelland attended an annual meeting with Dr Elizabeth Mayne to try to co-ordinate supplies of Factor 8 with usage and demand.

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The closure of factories in the late 1970s and early 1980s made it more challenging to meet targets.

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By this time, the Belfast RTC had increased its output of red cell concentrates from 20% of the units sent out for transfusion to 75-80% in the space of 3 to 4 years.

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In his oral evidence to the Inquiry, Dr Morris McClelland acknowledged that there was an argument that prison donations in Northern Ireland should have been stopped long before October 1983.

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In his oral evidence, Dr Morris McClelland stated that the armed forces sessions in Northern Ireland were a valuable source of donors at a time when the blood services were struggling to maintain blood supplies.

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Dr Morris McClelland told the Inquiry that he was aware that there was a higher incidence of Hepatitis B among military donors, but given how important these donors were, he was unsure how much consideration he would have given to this.

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