Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed)

12:30 pm

Mr. Andrew Meagher:

Our property rights are enshrined in the Constitution. IP rights are property rights. The Government is looking to take those property rights away. There has to be an impact. There has to be some form or method of compensation. That is our view. It is clear that is not the view of some other people, and maybe not of some committee members. We do have property rights enshrined in the Constitution. If they are to be taken away there has to be some recognition of the loss of property rights.

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