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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Ciara Conway: It was 33% in 1998 and it is now 22%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Ciara Conway: All of those changes happened in that period.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Ciara Conway: Can Mr. Meagher answer Senator Colm Burke’s question too about-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Ciara Conway: Will Mr. Meagher answer Senator Colm Burke’s question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Ciara Conway: There was another question about suing the State or the potential to do so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Ciara Conway: We are trying to stick to the heads of the Bill.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Ciara Conway: The Senator has made his point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Ciara Conway: Thank you, Senator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Ciara Conway: Dr. Gietz, are you a medical doctor?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Ciara Conway: Thank you. You are an historian.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Ciara Conway: On a point of information-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Ciara Conway: Excuse me, on a point of information. The committee decides who comes in, not The Irish Timesor anybody else.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Ciara Conway: On another point of information, in respect of other American companies, one in two users of Facebook do not die so I do not think we are comparing like with like.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Ciara Conway: Dr. Gietz is the one making the point, with all due respect.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Ciara Conway: By Mr. Freda's own admission the slim packs, the menthol cigarettes, are targeted at women.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Ciara Conway: Women are half the population. What is the reason for targeting women? Women are often the main educators of young children in the home. Young children are inquisitive and will often root in handbags. Is there a particular reason why this product is targeted at women?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Ciara Conway: I certainly believe that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Ciara Conway: Is the only motivation for targeting women smokers to give them a choice?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Ciara Conway: In Mr. Freda's earlier testimony he spoke about the importance of education by families, communities and in schools.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Ciara Conway: Why, therefore, target the people who are the main educators of children? Mr. Freda referred to the greater influence of family habits compared to packaging. Why are women targeted?