Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 3 February 2005
118 Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has raised with his British counterpart during recent meetings the recent reports confirming that the British Army used the highly poisonous CR gas, dibenzoxazepine, to subdue internees and prisoners of war in Long Kesh in the early 1970s; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3322/05]
View answer120 Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has asked his British counterpart to have the health agencies investigate whether the use by the British Army of the highly poisonous CR gas, dibenzoxazepine, to subdue internees and prisoners of war in Long Kesh in the early 1970s may be related to the higher than normal number of deaths from cancerous diseases among ex-prisoners of Long Kesh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3340/05]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 118 and 120 together.
I have read the recent reports referred to by the Deputy, and have raised the matter with the British authorities through the office of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Secretariat in Belfast.
