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Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)

John Crown: I thank the Minister and Acting Chairman for allowing me to clarify this technical point. There are microchip technologies that can be inserted into cigarette packaging which enable communication to occur-----

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)

John Crown: I thank the Acting Chairman. This amendment is dealing with a very specific and technical issue. There are technologies analogous to those employed in the reading of barcodes which, using near-field communications, make it possible for central vendors to establish a degree of contact, as a marketing device, with people who have purchased cigarettes from them. This amendment seeks to...

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)

John Crown: I beg the indulgence of my more experienced parliamentary colleagues. If we proceed according to the order of the day, will the group of amendments be agreed in its entirety? While the Minister addressed the issue of specific warnings, other issues also arise, including the prohibition of non-classical electronic advertising in communication inserts in packaging. We should vote on this...

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)

John Crown: Broadly-speaking, two issues arise. First, I take on board the Minister's point that he will give some thought to the issue of including additional warnings. Is he prepared to agree at this stage to the amendments which prohibit our enemy from placing sophisticated electronic marketing devices in their death-causing products?

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)

John Crown: My question relates to amendment No. 6.

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)

John Crown: Without wishing to show all my cards in this game of poker, I am prepared to compromise with the Minister on the issue of additional warnings by giving him time to act. That is the first issue but a second, separate issue also arises. As such, the group may be a little too comprehensive. The second issue is the prohibition of a marketing device which the authors of the Bill, in good faith,...

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)

John Crown: I am trying to get clarification on what exactly that means. Does that mean the Minister is making a commitment to table the amendments in the Dáil?

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)

John Crown: Please forgive my relative unfamiliarity with some of the more arcane aspects of parliamentary procedure but is there a mechanism where we can delay the vote on this for a few minutes while I take some advice on it? I can move on to a different amendment.

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)

John Crown: Is it in any way compromising the Minister's ability to address this issue later if we press it today and it is defeated - if he thinks it is a good idea and with further advice has the opportunity to amend the Bill accordingly in the Dáil?

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)

John Crown: I would prefer not to delay the passage of the Bill. If it is the Minister's and the Leader's intention that Report Stage be taken today, I do not wish to delay that process, close as we are to the summer break. Being practical about it, I do not believe the amendments will ultimately be accepted. If they are going to be thrashed out and discussed, it will be today or never. I am not...

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 6: In page 8, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:“(g) not contain any item incorporated into the packaging other than as provided for by law.”.We live in a technological age and marketing strategies are growing ever more sophisticated, including the use of electronically taggable devices. Amendment No. 6 would prevent tobacco companies from...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jun 2014)

John Crown: I have a quick question for the Leader. When I was fairly newly elected, a controversy arose involving another politician who had made representations in respect of a criminal case to the Judiciary. It emerged in the press that several similar episodes had occurred. I was interviewed in the press and stated this was a practice we should probably regulate and legislate for. My first...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2014)

John Crown: Will the Leader take a question?

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2014)

John Crown: Is that a "No"?

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2014)

John Crown: Nigella Lawson, a person who is greatly admired by many Members of these Houses, Kate Moss, the Gallagher brothers, Noel and Liam, and Russell Brand all have something in common. They have all been prevented or impeded from entering the United States because they have either had a prior record or made a public admission of using rather illegal drugs. The American attitude to such behaviour...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2014)

John Crown: Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan, our newly elected MEP, is a man who has done a remarkably good job for his constituency and a person for whom I have a lot of admiration, even if I do not always agree with him.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2014)

John Crown: Yes, I do, but I need a little bit of patience in order to get to it.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2014)

John Crown: If an Irish person decided tomorrow to openly admit that he or she had sold death-causing addictive drugs in the United States, he or she would be in real trouble when trying to get into the US. I strongly suspect that the FBI would launch subpoenas in American law and have them extradited. Yesterday, it came out in the papers that Thomas Donohue, the head of the United States Chamber of...

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jun 2014)

John Crown: I welcome the Minister. This is a very good day for him. I laud his efforts in public health and I think he will be remembered for the good work he has done on these two Bills, among other aspects of his good work. Some 5,000 per year is the figure. Let us put a perspective on that. This is a little country of 4.5 million people and we lose 5,000 per year from smoking. We are all aware...

Seanad: Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Jun 2014)

John Crown: Ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas a dhéanamh leis an Aire ar an Bhille. It is great news that the Bill has passed. In addition to the practical implications of protecting young people against the harmful effects of unnecessary ultraviolet radiation, it gives us a great opportunity to hammer home the message that Ireland's gene pool has the highest incidence of malignant melanoma. Irish...