Paschal Mooney (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----one of the safest and most beneficial cost-effective public health measures for preventing and controlling and, in some cases, reversing tooth decay. Health Canada supports fluoridation. The World Health Organization said fluoridation is an effective way to prevent tooth decay in poor communities, that in some developed countries the health and economic benefits of fluoridation may be small but particularly important in deprived areas.

A flyer issued in May 1955 by the Keep America Committee alleging a conspiracy theory that water fluoridation was a communist plot stated that it is said that it had frequently been the subject of conspiracy theories during the red scare and, to a lesser extent in the 1960s, activists on the far right of American politics routinely asserted that fluoridation was part of a far-reaching plot to impose a socialist or communist regime. I ask the Minister of State to take note, he is under pressure.