There is a call for fundamental changes to the government's symphysiotomy payment scheme.

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), Amnesty International and the group representing women who underwent the procedure during childbirth say the current scheme violates human rights obligations.

And some new hospital records have come to light which were not previously disclosed.

The first deadline for submissions under the scheme was last Friday.

Amnesty International has also called on the Health Minister Leo Varadkar to repeal the legal waiver women must sign before they accept any payment.

The executive director of Amnesty International Ireland, Colm O'Gorman, said last week: "It is wholly unacceptable that these women must waive their right to take further legal action against any individual or body for what happened to them in order to accept this payment."

"It is an affront to the surviving women's human rights that they should be obliged not to sue, and to "indemnify and hold harmless", any individuals and bodies responsible for human rights abuses inflicted upon them."

In July 2014, the UN Human Rights Committee recommended that the government provide an effective remedy to the survivors of symphysiotomy for the damage sustained, including fair and adequate compensation and rehabilitation, on an individualised basis.

"The UN Human Rights Committee could not have been clearer. It advised that Ireland must not only allow, but also facilitate, any woman opting for this ex gratia payment scheme to take legal action. What the government has instead done is a trespass on their right to a remedy for human rights abuses," Mr O'Gorman added.

Mark Kelly of the ICCL says it is not right that women should be forced to indemnify those responsible.