Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health

Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage

4:30 pm

Photo of Jerry ButtimerJerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputies Kelleher, Ó Caoláin and Healy, as well as other members of the committee, for facilitating the Bill being taken today in advance of tomorrow's national no-smoking day. It is important that we all subscribe to having a tobacco-free Ireland. I thank the committee members for their assistance and co-operation. I hope we will have a tobacco-free Ireland.

Let us engage with the retailers who are genuinely concerned about the potential loss of revenue. The retailers have met us individually and collectively, and perhaps the Minister can see ways we can assist them so that they will not experience job losses.

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