Mary Upton (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if tests for presence of abnormal radioactivity here have been carried out subsequent to the apparently mysterious ailment that struck down former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar apparently after eating breakfast in an Irish hotel on 24 November 2006; when, the location and the way such tests have been carried out; the number of substances and the substances that were tested for; the results of such tests; and if no such tests have been carried out, the reason they have not been and when will they be carried out; the efforts that have been made to contact those who might have been in close proximity to Mr. Gaidar during his time here; if these people have been tested; if not the reason they have not been tested and when such testing will take place. [41821/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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I am advised that there is no evidence that the illness in question was attributable to radiation. Initially, there were concerns in regard to the possible involvement of radiation and the Gardaí and the relevant hospital (the Connolly Memorial Hospital) asked the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII) to undertake monitoring of locations in the hospital and in the NUI, Maynooth in order to provide reassurance to the public. The RPII undertook the necessary monitoring on 1 December 2006. The results of the monitoring did not show any abnormal radiation levels. This information was conveyed to the hospital and the Gardaí by the RPII.