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

12:45 pm

Photo of James ReillyJames Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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I thank everybody for their support. I am looking forward to the hearings. I have no doubt they will inform us in a very real way in the production and publication of the Bill. I am aware that retailers have had concerns in the past, but this morning's news, which was on the Internet last night, that Ireland is now the best country in the world in which to do business - not just the best small country - should be of some reassurance to them. If I were to sum up what this measure is about, I would say it was about putting another nail in the coffin of these coffin nails.