Kathleen Funchion (Carlow-Kilkenny, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister. I acknowledge a particular woman, Laura, who brought this to my attention. There are also others who campaign with her. It is probably an issue about which we do not speak a lot. When we say it people ask what is the problem. We can look at how much we now know about smoking and cigarettes and their links to cancer. We have the images on packaging now. With regard to sunbeds, however, while I acknowledge there are some measures it is widely felt that often they do not go far enough. Are they actually being implemented? Among the suggestions is to have a database to which everyone running a sunbed facility must sign up. Sometimes people go into one particular place for ten minutes and then go down the road somewhere else for another ten minutes. We know this happens. If there were a database to which people had to sign up it would limit usage. With regard to ID there is still an issue with very young teenage girls. I will discuss this in my next supplementary question.

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