Dáil debates
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions
Defence Forces Medicinal Products
11:50 am
Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
11. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the fact that members of the Defence Forces are the only soldiers in the various missions in Mali that are required to take Lariam; and when he will abide by the instructions of Dáil Éireann to cease the use of the drug of first choice in preventing malaria in view of the fact that most other military authorities have switched to alternative anti-malaria drugs and that already some of those in the latest deployment have had an adverse reaction to a drug no longer on public sale here. [45675/19]
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