Philip Dolan from the Scottish Infected Blood Forum says he hopes MSPs will come to the Scottish Parliament tomorrow night where video stories of the victims will be told.

Petra Wright from the Hepatitis C Trust says a number of people die during stage one of this disease and they are unable to work and got no financial support.

People also need support with small things like the stigma attached to this condition because sufferers are keeping it a secret, She says.  

Bill Wright from Haemophilia Scotland says there are families where it is likely the infected partner will die and he emotionally highlights the need for partners and widows left behind to be supported. 

"The widows in this story have been treated shoddily."

Mr Wright stresses that those who have lost loved ones should not have to wait another 17 years for justice.

"We need government to move on this and to make an early announcement" so that partners know there will be sound financial support for those left behind.

Bill Wright from Haemophilia Scotland says for many people it is not about money.

Mr Wright says the apologies from the first minister, the health secretary and the Scottish National Blood Transfusion meant a lot.

However, "the big thing for many people is financial recognition". 

Going down the legal route will take years and years, "we want to get money to people as soon as possible", he says. 

SNP MSP Richard Lyle says people want closure on this now and asks the witness how this would best be achieved.

Although it remains the name of the ground of one of England's famous old football clubs, since 1989 the word Hillsborough has more strongly evoked Britain's worst sporting disaster.

On 15 April 1989, at the start of an FA Cup semi-final, a crush on the steel-fenced terraces of Sheffield Wednesday's stadium resulted in the death of 96 Liverpool fans and left hundreds more injured.  

The inquiry into the disaster, led by Lord Justice Taylor, established the main cause as a failure of police crowd control.

Despite the Taylor Report, which was also critical of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club and Sheffield City Council, on 14 August 1990 the director of public prosecutions decided not to bring criminal charges against any individual, group or body on the grounds of insufficient evidence.  

Bill Wright from Haemophilia Scotland says there are a lot of parallels between the Penrose Inquiry and the Taylor Inquiry into Hillsborough. 

Mr Wright says Lord Penrose was defensive in his approach.

He says the inquiry system needs to be looked at the Penrose Inquiry must be followed up.

People infected by contaminated NHS blood products should have their compensation nearly doubled, a report to the Scottish government has recommended.

It said those infected with HIV, or who developed advanced Hepatitis C, should get £27,000 per year - the equivalent of the average Scottish salary.

They are currently offered £15,000.

The Scottish government said it had yet to decide whether to implement the new proposals.

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Campaigners have been split over the level of payouts, with some saying more money should be found.

The move follows the publication of the findings of the Penrose Inquiry, external into the contamination of blood supplies in the 1970s and 80s.

Financial support is targeted at people who were infected by their NHS treatment, including haemophiliacs and people who have had blood transfusions.

Many went on to suffer conditions such as liver disease.

The Department of Health recently estimated the number of victims was 30,000 UK-wide.

Philip Dolan agrees, absolutely there should have been blame apportioned. 

Mr Dolan says a lot of the members of the Scottish Infected Blood Forum got Hepatitis C from blood transfusions.   

SNP MSP Richard Lyle asks if it was a witness that the Penrose Inquiry did not apportion blame or liability. 

Philip Dolan MBE from the Scottish Infected Blood Forum again stresses that he feels not enough victims gave evidence to the inquiry. 

Mr Dolan says some of the expert evidence was questionable.

"It was a waste of £12m."

Bill Wright from Haemophilia Scotland says Crown immunity was used as a "savage tool" to prevent people getting to the truth.

Mr Wright says no evidence was taken from Dr David Owen.

He says there was not a great deal of judgement exercised in the Penrose Inquiry and one single recommendation is "extremely odd".

There was an angry response to the report, external from victims and relatives who had gathered at the National Museum in Edinburgh to see its publication after a six-year wait, with shouts of "whitewash" after its conclusions were read out.

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The contaminated blood scandal has been described as the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS, and was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people, many of whom had been haemophilia patients.  

Petra Wright from the Hepatitis C Trust says victims have been waiting 30 years and 17 years since the inquiry process started.

Ms Wright says she suffers from Hepatitis C and to finally get one recommendation which has not been implemented after a year is not good enough. 

"Time is short for people with Hepatitis C."

Philip Dolan from the Scottish Infected Blood Forum says he has been haunting this place since 1999.

Mr Dolan says "many people wanted to give their story, but were not heard". 

Only six of the victims were called, he says.

Mr Dolan, who has haemophilia and Hepatitis C, says the appeal about Lord Penrose's decision was heard by himself, which goes against natural justice.

He says Lord Penrose was told that Mr Dolan had the Sword of Damocles hanging over him in relation to his Hepatitis C, he replied "you mean a feather duster".

Mr Wright says that people died in the time it took for the Penrose Inquiry to report and it only made one recommendation. 

Bill Wright, from Haemophilia Scotland said of the report: "It's not about broken processes, it's about broken lives" and said it was the time for an apology.

Mr Wright added: "At first sight the report appears to disorganised and impenetrable. Worse still it might appear on first reading to be a whitewash with frankly some of the chairman's assertions seemingly barely rational.

"Look a bit deeper and there is a narrative setting out the case that cannot be avoided by the government and its moral responsibility."

He said there needed to be an "official apology", better compensation and a review of the report.

The inquiry's remit was to investigate how the NHS collected, treated and supplied blood.

Lord Penrose also scrutinised what patients were told, how they were monitored and why patients became infected.

Bill Wright from Haemophilia Scotland says the common term used for the six year long Penrose Inquiry was a "whitewash".

Mr Wright says the it has brought the whole inquiry system into dispute.

SNP MSP Richard Lyle begins by outlining the timeline that led to the Penrose Inquiry.

Mr Lyle says this has taken 17 years to get to this position and he highlights criticism of the inquiry.

Last year Prime Minister David Cameron apologised on behalf of the British government to victims of the contaminated blood scandal.

It came after a Scottish inquiry described the saga as "the stuff of nightmares".

Thousands of people were infected with Hepatitis C and HIV through NHS blood products in the 1970s and 80s.

But the inquiry concluded few matters could have been done differently.

And it made only a single recommendation - that anyone in Scotland who had a blood transfusion before 1991 should be tested for Hepatitis C if they have not already done so.