Colm Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for Health for bringing forward this Bill. I thank the departmental officials and all who were involved in pushing forward this legislation.

I join the Minister in thanking the Irish Cancer Society and all the organisations involved in promoting the need to be careful about our health. What has happened in the past 25 years is that conditions are being diagnosed much earlier. We need to get the information into the public domain. The Bill regulates sunbed use for children. In the way we are getting information on the dangers of smoking into the public domain, the dangers of the use of sunbed must come into the public domain.

This welcome Bill is long overdue. I thank the Minister for his work in this area.