Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I would like to make a brief comment. I welcome the further opportunity to address the legislation. We have posed a number of questions from the first introduction of the legislation as to the effectiveness and veracity of the proposal but I am happy that it most certainly will make a positive contribution to the continuing momentum against tobacco products. In that respect I record for the Minister's noting that I will be supporting the Bill in each of its Stages. I would like to record that I think it is wholly inappropriate that this Legislature is being subjected to what are threats from interested parties in relation to the matters under address.

It is wholly inappropriate. If anything, what we have learned from the front pages of our national broadsheets this morning only steels our resolve to progress the legislation to a successful passage through these Houses. That is my response to the correspondence received and to the efforts to dissuade the Government. I commend the Minister on holding to his position. As an Opposition voice on health in these Houses, I stand foursquare with him in that resolve.