Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

What the Deputy is not referring to is the fact that 1 million people a year die of malaria. He is not referring to the fact that we send our troops into regions that have serious malaria issues. I need to protect them, to make sure they are not in those figures of people who die from malaria each year. There is a balance to be achieved here to make sure that when we make decisions to send troops to places like Mali, to other parts of North Africa and other parts of the world, where they are badly needed as peacekeepers, we protect them. We need to take the best medical advice available to us on those medical decisions. That is what we do. This has nothing to do with court cases in Ireland.

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