Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This question arises from a recent situation where a man approached one of my colleagues about the long application process one undertakes to be accepted into the Defence Forces, and rightly so, but at the very end of that process there is a medical form to be signed. He signed to confirm that as a child he had asthma and at the point he was ruled out. How does that come about and why does it emerge at the very end of the process?

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