446 Deputy Michael D. Higgins asked the Minister for Defence if he will provide assurances that Irish soldiers deployed in Chad are fully equipped with maps, global positioning systems and communications equipment to ensure that events such as that which occurred recently whereby a French EUFOR vehicle which, according to reports, strayed by a few kilometres across an unmarked border into Darfur resulting in an engagement between EUFOR and Sudanese forces leading to loss of life, will be averted. [10304/08]

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446 Deputy Michael D. Higgins asked the Minister for Defence if he will provide assurances that Irish soldiers deployed in Chad are fully equipped with maps, global positioning systems and communications equipment to ensure that events such as that which occurred recently whereby a French EUFOR vehicle which, according to reports, strayed by a few kilometres across an unmarked border into Darfur resulting in an engagement between EUFOR and Sudanese forces leading to loss of life, will be averted. [10304/08]

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