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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: 69. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will immediately order the cessation of the use of Lariam in the Irish Defence Forces, pending the publication of the findings of the working group into the drug, given the growing number of calls for this and given the paper published by Dr. Ashley Croft in The Pharmaceutical Journal on 12 November 2015 urging the discontinuance of the use of Lariam...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: This follows on from Deputy Crowe's question on Lariam. I am glad to hear the Minister has had some engagement since his last meeting with Mark O'Sullivan. Mark has been medically discharged since that meeting, and he is in the Gallery along with a number of his colleagues who have been negatively impacted by Lariam. This question is quite specific. The Minister has said he is interested...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: We have a real problem at this stage and there are people in the Gallery and beyond who believe that the attitude being adopted by the Irish Defence Forces is now akin almost to reckless endangerment. It is a fact that other drugs deal just as effectively with malaria as Lariam, which has 27 neurological side effects that leave permanent damage. Malaria is treatable if it is identified...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: Let me finish. Across the water in Britain, almost 2,000 British soldiers were given Lariam last year, with 14% treated for side effects. Since 2008, almost 1,000 people in Britain have been hospitalised in psychiatric facilities or treated in medical mental health facilities for side effects of Lariam. People want to know if its use will be ceased now and that treatment will come in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: We have a real problem with this. It is a fact that many Defence Forces personnel would refute strongly the Minister's assertion that there is individual screening. They have testified to the opposite, that they are not given appropriate warnings or assessed for mental health history and so forth. Even if they were, are the measures put in place to protect them, given that this could...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: The problem is that these risk assessments have not calculated how many deaths have occurred through suicide by those taking Lariam.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: Where is the publication? Where is the assessment of the permanent neurological damage done to former Defence Forces personnel in our State? Malaria is treatable; the side-effects from Lariam are not. It has destroyed the lives of people in the Gallery and their families, and it is not good enough to carry on regardless when the known side-effects for this drug were identified in 1995 and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: There is.

Other Questions: White Paper on Defence (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: 72. To ask the Minister for Defence if he is satisfied that due regard was given to the potential pitfalls of military Keynesianism for Irish defence policy and Irish neutrality in the discussions surrounding the drawing up of the White Paper on defence. [41207/15]

Other Questions: White Paper on Defence (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: I have tabled this question on foot of the Minister's concerning comments about trying to plug the Defence Forces in with innovators and entrepreneurs. It seems that such people will be given access to the Defence Forces to help them to develop jobs and so forth. There are clear dangers in such a strategy, such as we might not be able to control the end product in military terms. I seek...

Other Questions: White Paper on Defence (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: Hawk.

Other Questions: White Paper on Defence (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: The Minister does it himself.

Other Questions: White Paper on Defence (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: I did not say anything about testing weapons. I spoke about the Minister shacking up with regimes such as Saudi Arabia and Israel, which also pride themselves on their ability to develop security measures and high-tech IT solutions such as those the Minister has lauded in the House. Private firms, with which the Minister wants us to link up, are in the business of profit. They are not...

Other Questions: White Paper on Defence (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: Despite the best intentions of the Minister, where the product ends up is outside his control unless he stipulates in advance that he will put in safeguards prohibiting co-operation with countries which have a proven pedigree in this regard. For example, Israel has supplied over 60% of the world's drones since 1985 and new types of technology such as the Sea Knight, an unmanned patrol ship...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Equipment (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: 75. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 6 of 25 June 2015, if he has been involved in any recent discussions at European Union level regarding the import and export of arms from Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41206/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: 77. To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to allow the international defence industry to have increased access to the Defence Forces for product testing, with regard to whether safeguards are in place to ensure that such co-operation does not involve companies or countries which are known to be involved in funding and supplying the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: EU Battle Groups (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: 86. To ask the Minister for Defence his views on Ireland's participation in a European Union battlegroup, led by Germany, to be established in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41205/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Internal Secrutiy Issues (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: 92. To ask the Minister for Defence if his Department has engaged in consultations with the Department of Justice and Equality regarding the implications of the terrorist attack on Paris in France for Ireland, with particular reference to whether any discussion took place regarding developing our peacekeeping expertise. [41208/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: 100. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of positions within the Civil Service that have been filled by persons on the JobBridge scheme, since 2011; if she is concerned that positions in the Civil Service that could be filled by full-time or part-time workers on standard rates of pay, are being displaced through the use of internship schemes such as this...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Firearms Licences (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: 191. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of the 95 military licences issued during 2014 which were issued to persons holding sports firearms, and to companies engaged in mining activity. [41648/15]