159 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health and Children if she has asked the Irish Medicines Board to review their decision in the past to approve the drug Mefloquine or Lariam in view of the fact that the drug has been linked with severe psychological and physical side effects, including a number of deaths among soldiers in Ireland who served on missions abroad, and its withdrawal as a drug for soldiers in other armies around the globe specifically for those reasons. [47289/10]

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159 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health and Children if she has asked the Irish Medicines Board to review their decision in the past to approve the drug Mefloquine or Lariam in view of the fact that the drug has been linked with severe psychological and physical side effects, including a number of deaths among soldiers in Ireland who served on missions abroad, and its withdrawal as a drug for soldiers in other armies around the globe specifically for those reasons. [47289/10]

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