Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy Gogarty for raising this issue. I will talk to him again about this, but I accept that it is a serious issue. Very often, some of these issues fall between two or three stools, particularly in the context of who is legislatively responsible or when it comes to the different areas involved. We need a co-ordinated approach in respect of this issue. The Ministers for Justice and Health may have a role to play in terms of a legislative response to the issue of sales to under-18s. We do it for other products and substances so there is no reason why we cannot do it in this instance.

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