Mr. Chris Macey:

As Senator Crown said, measures should be introduced for public areas and public buildings or within the campus of a public building. Studies show the duplicity of the tobacco industry. The nicotine content of cigarettes is on the increase all the time so it is becoming more difficult to give up smoking. We have a proposal from the Department of Finance to set up a group and bring in Departments and the tobacco industry to talk about these issues. It is against the WHO framework convention on tobacco control, to which Ireland is a signatory, but we must also question what the tobacco industry can do to help us sort out the issues of tobacco control. The industry is not interested in that.