Darren O'Rourke: “Families simply cannot afford this. The ball is in the Government's court, but they need to respond to it.”

The current system, where survivors are forced into litigation in the hopes of a settlement, is cruel and risks re-traumatising victims.

Successive governments have put up barriers, set arbitrary criteria and effectively forced survivors into a position where they must sue the State to get what they are entitled to by law.

Because we know the price at the fuel pump is increasing, we know the fuel costs are not a discretionary spend for families as they have to spend that money, and on top of everything else in a cost-of-living crisis it is simply…