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Liquid detergent tablets

Summary

Senator Davitt called for liquid detergent tablets to be banned because of child poisoning incidents and asked the Minister to engage with manufacturers.

As part of Poison Awareness Day, I call on detergent companies to ban liquid detergent tablets. Half of the calls to the poison centre, which takes 10,000 calls a year, are about children swallowing liquid detergent tablets. Since 2011 in Ireland alone, there have been more than 700 children who have had serious problems after swallowing liquid detergent tablets. I call on the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to immediately engage with these multinationals to put a plan in place to scrap and ban liquid detergent tablets. I would appreciate if the Leader could talk to the relevant Minister. I believe it is an urgent enough matter. It is a simple measure that we could take. Children who evidently do not have the sense to know any different should not be exposed to these risks.

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