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A NEW BILL would see people prosecuted for putting fluoride into the water supply in Ireland – and they could serve up to five years in prison.
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Environment, Community and Local Government, Brian Stanley TD published the Health Fluoridation of Water Supplies Repeal Bill 2013 today, in an effort to ensure the substance is removed from Irish water.
Stanley said that the fluoridation of our water started in 1964 after the introduction of the Fluoridation of Water Supplies Act 1960. The proposed bill would repeal this older bill.
In 1964, the late Gladys Ryan took her case to the High Court against water fluoridation, on the basis that citizens had no choice but to drink medicated water.
Fluoride
Ireland is one of four EU states that support fluoridation of water.
“The EU Commission of Health and Consumers stated that, ‘people do not need fluoride for normal growth and development’,” continued Stanley. “The European Court of Justice has defined fluoridation as a medication and has refused to sanction its implementation. Yet our government continues to impose fluoride on the population at a cost of €4.8 million per annum.”
He told TheJournal.ie that this “has become a mainstream issue” and that it isn’t “just an issue for ‘looney lefties’ or ‘treehuggers’”.
This is an issue in Dublin 4, it’s an issue in Dublin 14, It’s an issue in Dublin 7. It’s an issue in Kerry, Derry, Louth, Wexford. This is an issue everywhere.
He said that the money spent on fluoridation could be spent on improving awareness of oral hygiene and healthy eating among children in Ireland. “Let’s really get serious about promoting dental health and healthy eating.”
Stanley asserts that people “receive enough fluoride in our toothpaste” and that the issue is one of public health. He will be seeking cross-party support for the bill when it is debated in the Dáil.
He said he has been interested in the subject since 1999 and that as a councillor he brought up the issue for discussion at council level on a number of occasions.
For the last year, he has been doing further research into the subject, and decided this bill was necessary. Sinn Féin as a party is opposed to water fluoridation.
The bill would make it an offence to put fluoride into the water supply and those found guilty would be liable for a class A fine or imprisonment.
A body such as a town council, county council or Irish water body could also be charged if found putting fluoride into a water supply.
Stanley said that “at the very least we should be taking the precautionary principal” and follow the lead of regions or countries that have stopped using it.
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Like a doctor saying you have 3 weeks to live instead of 2.
When a politician tells you one thing, you can be sure the opposite is true. Baldy, look me in the eye and say it ain’t so.
I wonder can he read is it really possible to be that stupid!! Jazus shame on limerick for electing that traitor
Whats next Mini farming budget ….give me a break! Get out now ppl if you have a chance to do so!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15748696
Have a look at this Mr Noonan ….
Each German owes €50,659,
Each French person owes €66,508
each person in Ireland owes €390,969.
Impossible We owe this thanks to the banks YET
http://www.newstalk.ie/2011/news/rich-list-irelands-wealthiest-named/
There is of course money in this country But Why is there so much
Austerity for the less well off ordinary workers ?
Eileen,
What is also interesting about the Foreign Debt graphs (that you gave the link to) is what it doesn’t show. The circle shows a number of countries that we own debt to including the 100 billion we OK (which of course is sort of balanced by the 100 billion or so that they owe us) but it only shows us owing 250 billion or so to the countries shown (even thought he caption underneath says that bank debt is included in those arrows and that financial services debt is substantial in Ireland’s case). So, which country’s people and banks are loaning us all this foreign credit if it is not the US, France or Germany?
Oh, and also is the money that we owe in the countries that are not shown on the graph balanced by monies that they owe us (like in the case of the UK) or do we just owe all the money to China?
That should be ’100 billion that we owe the UK’ not ’100 billion we OK’ :)
Trying to sweeten us up!
shut up noonan
Yeah but not as good as you’ve been saying either there noonie.
I don’t know ! But If YOU know or show me
another more detailed graph , I would
appreciate it .
Thanks Robert lynch.
Find it difficult to believe anything this man tells us. He told us that the bondholders took a hit in the region of 50% on the Anglo deal on Quinn Group. THEY TOOK NOT HIT OR WRITE DOWN WHATSOEVER..
Either he was played for a fool or he was playing the people of Ireland for fools.
See http://quinn-anglo-story.blogspot.com/
Michael Noon is Talking to his A,,
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