Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 November 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019 (Resumed): Discussion
Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Well done on that. I would certainly support such a measure. We have come a long way and the silent majority are on the side of further restrictions. I suspect that if there was a proposal to reintroduce smoking in pubs, there would be an outcry, similar to the outcry in 2003 when the current Taoiseach and then Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Micheál Martin, introduced the ban. At that time, the vintners tried to say that they run the country and that it would not happen but the conversation now would be completely different. The people who want to ban smoking everywhere for health reasons have huge support from the silent majority.
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