Mr. Vincent Jennings:

We give much assistance to the customs service and the Garda from our offices in more sense than one. In our weekly newsletter and monthly reminders to people we provide the free phone numbers for the customs service. We meet the customs service regularly. We are served incredibly well by the brave people in the customs service. They do work we could not do and which many of us would prefer not to do. Somebody has to do it and they are brave souls.

Our biggest difficulty as a society is the fact we are unable to do what is most obvious, which is raise the price of the product. This would be the easiest way to move towards tobacco cessation for many people. The difficulty which the Minister, Deputy Michael Noonan, correctly pointed out in November is ordinary decent citizens buy illicit products. I represent ordinary decent citizens who are retailers and we have a difficulty with this.