The Irish Haemophilia Society (IHS) expressed disappointment at the tribunal chairwoman's judgments. It said it was concerned about possible delays in having to make further applications to the tribunal to have evidence heard from its members as a matter of priority.
Having to enter negotiations with the Department of Health on the question of costs would also lead to further delays, the IHS administrator, Ms Rosemary Daly, said.
"How many more applications have to be made before our members get to tell their story of why they are dying and why their loved ones have died? What more do they want people with haemophilia to do to get access to justice?" she asked.
Ms Daly said members of the IHS would be extremely upset by the rulings. An urgent meeting of the society's executive will be held at the weekend to consider their options at this stage. Among the questions to be "considered strongly" is whether the IHS should participate in the inquiry.
"What has happened here today is another door closing to access to how this disaster has befallen the haemophilia community. We have been waiting for this tribunal for a very long time, and our members are dying while they are waiting, and yet there seems to be a further delay."
She pointed out that all the IHS was seeking to do was to have procedures in place that would allow it participate in the tribunal in a "meaningful way" so that the truth as to how its members became infected would come out.
"I have to reiterate that this tribunal is about people with haemophilia. It is about 62 people who have died. It's about a death sentence for the other people who remain alive, and yet we have to make an application that their evidence be heard as a priority."
Ms Daly also questioned the tribunal's understanding of HIV and hepatitis C, referring specifically to Judge Lindsay's comment that evidence would have been heard from an infected person before that person died last month if an application had been made.
She said the tribunal was told last Thursday that the deceased got sick on a Wednesday and was dead two days later. "I'm just wondering at what point she would have considered it appropriate for that application to be made and, secondly, would the tribunal be prepared to go to a hospital bed outside Dublin to hear the evidence," she said.