Bernard Allen (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 270: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the rates of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis here from 1990 to date in 2008. [11475/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) monitors rates of Tuberculosis in Ireland on an on-going basis. Prior to 1998, cases of multidrug resistance to TB were not recorded.

According to data provided by the HPSC, cases of multidrug resistance to TB in Ireland between 1998 and 2007 were as shown in the following table.