David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am very grateful to the Acting Chairman.

Such water treatment has never been in use in Belgium and will never be in the future because the fundamental position of the drinking water sector is that it is not its task to deliver medicinal treatment to people. Fluoride has never been added to the public water supply in Luxembourg and the authorities there believe the drinking water is not the suitable means to deliver medicinal treatment. Finland does not favour or recommend the fluoridation of drinking water because there are better ways of providing fluoride.