Aidan Davitt (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As part of poison awareness day, I call on detergent companies to ban liquid detergent tablets. Half of the calls to the poison centre, which takes 10,000 calls a year, are about children swallowing liquid detergent tablets. Since 2011 in Ireland alone, there have been more than 700 children who have had serious problems after swallowing liquid detergent tablets. I call on the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to immediately engage with these multinationals to put a plan in place to scrap and ban liquid detergent tablets. I would appreciate if the Leader could talk to the relevant Minister. I believe it is an urgent enough matter. It is a simple measure that we could take. Our children, who evidently do not have the sense to know any different, should not be exposed to these risks.