Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 December 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill: Discussion with Minister for Health

12:25 pm

Dr. Tony Holohan:

We are in the process of developing a three-year action plan. There will be cycles of three-year action planning with detailed actions. I will be happy to give the Senator a sense of the kinds of things we are talking about in that context and set out some of the kinds of measures in question. The single most important measure we will be tracking is the population prevalence of tobacco because that is the overall target. We are not saying there will be certain targets along the way. It is a single target and we will be monitoring progress in the direction of that target.