Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister's of State's interesting lesson on the tobacco industry. I am aware that we do not have many manufacturing companies here. I learned when I was in Canada recently that there are many such companies there. I note that the Minister of State has a huge team of advisers with him. At the last count, there were 16 of them in the ante-room. I am sure a mechanism could be found to tax companies that are making huge profits from the sale of cigarettes in this State. It is worth examining. I ask the Minister of State to come back to us on the matter.