Government urged to explain delay in taking defective sanitiser from schools

Virapro hand sanitiser has been withdrawn from the Irish market over public health fears after it was found to contain methanol, an ingredient believed to be toxic when included in such products. File Picture: Pexels

The Government is facing increasing calls to answer why schools were kept open after it was known defective and potentially dangerous hand sanitisers were in circulation among students.

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Labour’s education spokesman, has written to the chair of the Oireachtas Education Committee to ask him to convene a meeting next week with Norma Foley, the Minister for Education so that she can be questioned on the matter.