Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will talk about one of those loopholes relating to the sale of cigarettes at present. We brought in a regulation that cigarettes have to be sold in packs of 20 or more. My understanding is that 30% of all cigarettes now sold are in packs greater than 20. Should we also look at this in the context of, for argument's sake, someone who is on 20 cigarettes a day now buying a pack of, for example, 27 cigarettes? The likelihood is that that person will smoke those 27 cigarettes in one day. While we have said cigarettes cannot be sold in packs of less than 20, should we also be bringing in a regulation that only packs of 20 can be sold?