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Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (25 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the revised funding application by an organisation (details supplied) as advised by the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42004/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Animal Welfare (25 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: 184. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering or formulating plans to outlaw animal testing; if he will introduce penalties for animal testing, as has been done recently in New Zealand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41253/15]

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...

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.

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.

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: 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: Overseas Missions (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: I assure the Minister that will be strenuously resisted in this Chamber. The Minister's stance has exposed the utter hypocrisy of western authorities in respect of this matter. France is better placed and France has a right to defend its citizens - exactly contradictory remarks were made when Russia engaged in the same reprehensible actions by bombing Syria in response to attacks on Russia....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: 67. To ask the Minister for Defence the merits of deploying members of the Irish Defence Forces in Mali, given the history of that country. [41375/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: This question is obviously posed in the context of the French authorities invoking Article 42.7 of the Treaty on European Union, including the requirement to aid and assist in the event of an attack on another member state. There is speculation in the media that the Minister was considering allowing French troops currently located in Mali to be relieved of their duties and go elsewhere, and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (24 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: There is a link, of course, despite the Minister's best wishes. He is correct that the article involved clearly states that whatever action is taken, it "shall not prejudice the specific character of the security and defence policy" of the individual member state. The problem is that this Government and the previous Government have had an incredibly fluid interpretation of what it means to...