Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)

The Minister of State would not come down. Why not have a standard? The Sunday Times on 1 February informed us about the avian flu among Thai chicken. We know what happened the chicken in Thailand, Korea and Indonesia and about the recycling and the kind of feedstuff they got. For the first time, the most conservative body in the world, the WHO came to the forefront in trying to explain the seriousness of this flu.

I see here Deputy Upton who is a microbiologist and one of the most qualified people in the country.

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