Mary White (Fianna Fail)
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The delegates are welcome. It is frightening to listen to this information and to read about it. A Minister must take this issue by the scruff of the neck and deal with it. The country is physically so small that it should not be impossible to deal with the problem if the right approach is taken.

I refer to the report we received from the Oireachtas Library. The United States does quite well, with about 7% of GDP lost, but we lose 11% to 12%. Are the cigarettes smuggled in by Eastern Europeans? If that is the case, why can it not be dealt with? This is what is said anecdotally.