John Crown (Independent)
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I offer my condolences to and express unbelievable admiration for Ms Sloan on her terrible loss and on her courage. I once saw a 16 year old girl die from an anaphylactic reaction in the hospital setting and it was one of the most horrific things I ever saw and it has stayed with me forever. A huge effort to prevent even one death like this is worthwhile. We are talking about the prevention of rare tragedies. All the time, as a society, we agonise over and debate the prevention of other rare tragedies but we should just fix this one.

I would be delighted if Professor Hourihane could help me on this but I was doing a bit of arithmetic from figures from the United States and I am guessing that we probably have between one and three food allergy deaths per annum in Ireland if we can extrapolate that from data that have been presented in the US. I do not know if it is correct.