Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 February 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Prohibition of Certain Products Containing Plastic Microbeads Bill 2018: Discussion

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It was an interesting exchange. The officials said that they had gone out to see if that was the case and they found that there were none. However, there is a policy of encouraging people to use suntan lotion. If a product were to become available, the officials did not want the legislation to act as a disincentive to using it. Those were the general thoughts about it.

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