Dáil debates

Friday, 8 November 2013

Health (Fluoridation of Water Supplies) (Repeal) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members]

 

11:20 am

Photo of Peter MathewsPeter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----it may be time to double-question this.

Water filters were mentioned earlier. We have our water filter at home. Everybody needs a water filter because if one looks at the porous porcelain through which the water flows from the ingress tap to the smaller tap, one will see that it gets filthy. I am the guy who deals with this at home - I do the drains and the plumbing at home - so I know this. I have to scrub the filter clean with a wire implement every four weeks or so, and I can see the sediment, which is not visible in the water but accumulates like a fur on the porcelain filter. I suggest that those who can afford it after paying their property tax buy one of these filters, because it will help to eliminate the impurities.

What Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan stated is important too. Fluoride is a cocktail of elements - a bit of mercury, a bit of lead. We know all about lead.

Let us agree that we have all made helpful contributions to this. Words disappear; they evaporate and are no longer heard. They do not even resonate, because something else comes into our heads. Let us not put it on bits of paper that get filed in lever-arch files. Let us get the best forensic medical people to look at this and be honest about it. Maybe we do not need it any more. Let us break what Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan referred to as the habit we have followed from 1963 to 2013, which is 50 years, or half a century.

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