Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister will have an interest in this topic, which comes under Bills before the Dáil and Seanad, the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014. It is with awesome cheek and arrogance that Japan Tobacco Group threatens to sue the Minister for Health and the HSE for bringing forward the Bill. The Government should consider counter-suing them as a class action on behalf of the State for the death, damage and destruction they have caused families and the people of Ireland. That should put an end to the matter.

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