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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (29 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 220. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he accepts that unlike doxycycline and Malarone, Lariam Adverse drug reactions are predominantly neuropsychiatric in nature and that Lariam is the only one of the three drugs that carries a boxed safety warning, the most serious type of warning. [18603/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (29 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 221. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Director of the Medical Corps accepts that according to the Health Products Regulatory Authority's Malarone license, the drug can be prescribed for periods of six months. [18604/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (29 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 222. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Director of the Medical Corps accepts that as per the World Health Organisation International Travel and Health 2015, mefloquine, doxycycline and Malarone are all effective malaria chemoprophylaxis options for the various countries of Defence Forces deployments in sub-Saharan Africa. [18605/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (29 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 223. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Director of the Medical Corps accepts that the absorption of Doxycycline is not notably influenced by simultaneous ingestion of food or milk. [18606/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (29 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 224. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the official antimalarial policy for sub-Saharan Africa is still Lariam or unfit to travel; and if so, if he will cite as many examples as possible of other armies who have the same Lariam or unfit to travel policy for that region. [18607/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (29 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 225. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if Lariam or unfit to travel is no longer the policy, if he can supply a copy of the new malaria chemoprophylaxis policy for sub-Saharan Africa or individual country policies for that region; and when the changes were first implemented. [18608/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (29 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 226. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will request the Director of the Medical Corps to state the year from which prescribing doctors individually screened soldiers for Lariam suitability; and if he will provide all documentation in support of that answer. [18609/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (29 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 227. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason some troops, including those who subsequently took their own lives, were prescribed mefloquine despite clear written contraindications already recorded on their medical files. [18610/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (29 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 228. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the percentage of troops the director of the Medical Corps expects to be contraindicated from being prescribed Lariam; and to list the medical studies or other data used in support of this figure. [18611/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (29 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 229. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the percentage of the remaining troops not contraindicated to Lariam, the Director of the Medical Corps expects to then experience adverse drug reactions which mandate discontinuation of the drug as per the Health Products Regulatory Authority safety instructions and to list the medical studies or other data used in support of this figure....

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (29 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 230. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the director of Medical Corps accepts that Lariam can be associated with suicide. [18613/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (29 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 231. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to release the study or the raw data and methodology if no formal study exists, which shows a decreased risk of suicide in the period when Lariam was being prescribed by the Defence Forces, so that it can be subjected to independent scrutiny. [18614/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (29 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 232. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will instigate an independent study to establish if, as per an analysis (details supplied), there was a three to five times increased risk of suicide in Irish soldiers prescribed Lariam in comparison to a similar group who also served overseas but did not take the drug. [18615/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (29 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 233. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the working group on malaria prophylaxis been reconvened in the original context of current and future litigation, or if it is now instead tasked with examining best practice malaria prophylaxis in a military population with a view to making policy recommendations purely in the context of future overseas missions to sub-Saharan Africa....

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (29 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 234. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he or any of his officials contacted persons (details supplied) with a view to them contributing to the reconvened working group on malaria prophylaxis after their very generous offer. [18617/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (29 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 235. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the resources are available to check individual personnel files relating to the prescription and use of Lariam in the Defence Forces, thus releasing crucial information previously requested in a number of different parliamentary questions on the subject. [18618/16]

Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I move this Bill on behalf of my colleague, Deputy Mick Wallace, and the wonderful parents and organisers of the Terminations for Medical Reasons group, some of whom are in the Visitors Gallery. Over the past period, they have waived their privacy to share their pain. They have done this not to gain for themselves but solely to make the...

Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: I acknowledge the apology made by the Minister. It will be important to the individual women, their families and society at large. It is appreciated from that point of view. I recognise from tonight's debate the obvious change that is coming down the track. This is evident from the number of Members present at this hour on a Thursday evening and the cross-party points that have been made....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (30 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 31. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he is concerned that the administration, consultancy and actuarial services to the Central Remedial Clinic plan were all provided by the same organisation (details supplied) and that this organisation also owned the trustee of the plan, given the abrupt wind-up of a plan that the actuary had said in 2014 was on track to meet the minimum funding...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pensions Reform (30 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 53. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps he will take to reform and improve pension governance, given several high profile pension scandals, including the abrupt winding up of the Central Remedial Clinic plan. [18698/16]