Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Horan very much and wish her the very best in her new post.

John Lynch, who was the director of compliance in the HPRA, talked about the dangers of slimming pills. I ask that Ms Horan please look into this in her post, because the lists of ingredients for these pills seem to be falsified. Some people taking these tablets seem to think that they are simply herbal treatments or stimulants, and I want Ms Horan to be able to point out, especially to young women, the dangers in this regard. We know, for example - and Mr. Lynch also said he believes this to be the case - that there is a drug contained in these tablets called sibutramine, that this drug was banned worldwide in 2010 and that, even though the ingredients lists are on the packages, they are falsified. They do not state exactly what women are taking. I believe Mr. Lynch said that women are playing Russian roulette with their lives. I ask that Ms Horan please look into this as a matter of urgency.