Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)

Certain circumstances enabled the court to find that the Army had been negligent in not providing proper protective equipment such as hearing muffs for soldiers during military training exercises. I am advised by the military authorities that all those procedures have been put in place to the satisfaction of the legal people who gave the advice in the first instance that the Government had a case to answer.

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