Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the clarification the Minister of State has given on the military authorities' response to the HSA report. I was concerned that they waited until the report was finalised before taking any action. The Minister of State has now said the authorities had already started to take action but they had not taken action before the inspection process.

The HSA report made eight recommendations, seven of which I am told have been virtually implemented. Those were the easy ones and many involved dotting i's and crossing the t's. What exactly is involved in the eighth recommendation and how long will it take to implement it? Is the Minister of State confident that, as we speak, none of the Air Corps personnel is exposed to chemicals of the type that lead to diarrhoea 20 times per day, suicidal tendencies, anxiety, headaches, DNA alterations, discolouration and cancers? Are these chemicals now secure, with no personnel exposed to them? Do the personnel now have the equipment to deal with them? They did not have such equipment in the past.

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