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Mon 11 Nov 2002Haemophiliacs to seek firms inquiry in talks with MartinThe Minister for Health is to contact the Irish Haemophilia Society today in a bid to defuse a row over a promised inquiry into the role of multinational drugs companies in the infection of haemophiliacs with HIV and hepatitis C.Mr Martin and the IHS are to set a date for a meeting within the next fortnight in order to see how the inquiry could go ahead.