Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank you for reminding me, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. We are talking about public health which is referenced in the Title of the Bill.

When we pass legislation and subscribe to a policy there is a requirement to back it up on a continual basis to ensure that people adhere to it. Irish people are very slow in understanding that the sun can kill if they do not protect themselves from it.

I welcome the Bill and look forward to the debate on it. I do not want to take from the Bill; I published a Bill on the matter some time ago. This Bill is very similar, so I feel vindicated in having published it. I ask the Minister to look at skin types 1 and 2. If there are particular cohorts of people who are more vulnerable to developing melanoma and skin cancers, we should require the owners and operators of sunbeds make that very clear to people in advance of using sunbeds. I commend the Bill to the House.

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