Dáil debates
Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax
8:10 pm
Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source
The Labour Party will not be opposing this resolution. At what point is the benefit of the revenue raised by duties on tobacco outweighed by the increase in counterfeit tobacco, with effects on public health, criminality and all the rest? Is that discussion taking place within any Departments? We probably need to start thinking about that when it comes to this particular old reliable.
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