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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]

Other Questions: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (28 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: If the Minister could do so, it would address something critical. The people concerned were denied a voice in their youth and it is rubbing salt into their wounds that they are being ignored now. Many of their medical needs have not been met, albeit some of them have medical cards. Going back to training is not something those who are elderly want. They want some of the money to be used...

Other Questions: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (28 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 6. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 16 June 2016, why the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 requirement for a review of the Caranua scheme after two years has not been carried out and when it will be carried out. [17912/16]

Other Questions: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (28 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: This question relates to the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund and the requirement in the legislation whereby the funds which were to be awarded to the victims of abuse in the industrial schools would be reviewed after a two-year period. There is huge disquiet among the survivor community about the allocations that are being made from that fund. Why has it not been reviewed yet and...

Other Questions: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (28 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: The Minister has just given me an account of the way in which the system works, but I know that. My question related to the legislation which provides for a review after two years and it is now well past two years and a review has not yet taken place. The Minister's predecessors, the former Ministers, Ruairí Quinn and Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, both committed to me in the previous...

Other Questions: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (28 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: The Minister said that the terms of reference will be agreed in July and the review will take place in the autumn. I must stress, in the strongest possible terms, that the survivors groups would be consulted as part of that process in setting out the terms of reference. One of the problems that has been articulated, for example, is the huge level of administrative costs, with respect to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (28 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 22. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will legislate to protect families from religious discrimination in the enrolment process to all schools, by amending section 7(3)(c) of the Equal Status Act as a first step towards providing equal school access for all, with the option of teaching religion at the end of the school day. [17913/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (28 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 71. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce or amend existing equality legislation in order to abolish mandatory retirement ages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18408/16]