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)

1:40 pm

Mr. John P. Shaw:

It would be a question of timing and of when the case would be brought. Someone asked how long the Supreme Court would take and how long it would take for evidence to be adduced from Australia. That would beg the question from the Supreme Court about how a decision was made in the absence of evidence. That is the flaw in the argument from that point of view. I am not making that argument. If the Supreme Court looks at this, it will not ask how much time one wants to find the evidence, but will ask how one arrived at this decision and with what evidence.

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