James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)

On this matter, I asked both that this secondary legislation be put in place and that the Minister for Health and Children introduce secondary legislation to ensure first that there would be product liability on all the products sold and second that the Irish Medicines Board and the Food Safety Authority of Ireland would be obliged to pass all substances for sale in such shops. This would have the net effect of shutting them down.

While I am on my feet, I will raise an unrelated matter. The Taoiseach might confirm to Members that there is a recruitment committee responsible for appointing senior management to NAMA and that one person on that committee is a Mr. Maurice Keane. Is this the case because this man is a director-----

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