200 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to reports that US military personnel have been using the drug mefloquine (Lariam) to psychologically torture or experiment with detainees in Guantánamo Bay detention centre, including a practice called pharmacologic waterboarding and the administration on arrival of a dose five times that recommended to tackle malaria; if he has raised this matter with the US Administration as being contrary to conventions on the treatment of prisoners or detainees or prisoners of war; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47290/10]

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200 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to reports that US military personnel have been using the drug mefloquine (Lariam) to psychologically torture or experiment with detainees in Guantánamo Bay detention centre, including a practice called pharmacologic waterboarding and the administration on arrival of a dose five times that recommended to tackle malaria; if he has raised this matter with the US Administration as being contrary to conventions on the treatment of prisoners or detainees or prisoners of war; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47290/10]

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