Seanad debates

Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Public Health (Tobacco)(Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage

 

2:00 pm

Photo of David NorrisDavid Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I wish to alert the Minister to something I raised on the Order of Business a couple of weeks ago. We received a very glossy brochure from some crowd with a name like CDFI. They did not identify themselves and I had to go to quite a lot of trouble to discover they were representing a subsidiary of the tobacco industry. They were pushing exactly the line about which the Minister spoke, that is, the notion of tobacco smuggling being an issue. There was no mention of disease or anything else. It was terribly smarmy. Will the Minister look at that and expose these people? We all received this apparently innocent package in the post. I thought it was disgraceful because it was completely disingenuous. I wanted to take the opportunity to alert the Minster to that, although he is probably aware of it already.

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