Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

As Deputy Catherine Murphy stated, photographs of people from the 1950s show the gaps in the teeth, the rotten teeth, etc., but the other detail that one notices is the bright eyes. Maybe people were happier in their relationships even though they had economic distress in their lives. We can observe that, too, but that is for another debate.

The questions raised at the end by Deputy Finian McGrath were good ones. Why have some countries stopped doing this? We could put vitamin D into something that we take each day, which is water. We all need vitamin D. We do not get enough in this country because of the lack of sunshine.

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