Fluoride Free Towns, a national campaign group has called on the Minister for Health to sanction a moratorium on the State's Community Water Fluoridation policy pending investigations by both the FSAI's (Food Safety Authority of Ireland) Scientific Committee and the Cabinet of the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety into the issue of fluoridation induced birth defects.

Waterford City and County Council at their monthly plenary meeting this on 14 May 2015 passed a motion calling on the Irish Government to reverse the State's isolated policy within Europe of mandating a mandatory national water fluoridation policy for the purposes of reducing incidence levels of dental caries experienced by the population.