James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If I table them in my name but do not take them, that will be bizarre. What I am saying is that I will address the issue comprehensively. They can easily be tabled again by Members of the Dáil if they so wish. What I am saying is that I cannot accept them at the moment. Rather than have a vote on it, I would prefer to have more time to consider how we might be able to justify doing it. I have no problem with additional information being there because as I told the Senator before, as a practising GP, I used to insist that those with diabetes put a little cardboard note I had printed in their cigarette packs. It had a simple message on it that smoking plus diabetes equals amputation just to remind them every time they took out fag, they were imperilling their foot. Some people might read the long list the Senator has suggested once but thereafter, I do not think it would have any net effect.
However, if there is no problem from a legal point of view or if there is no imperilling of our situation vis-à-visthe inevitable challenge to our standardised packaging, I would not necessarily have a problem with it at all but I need further time to investigate it. I am not in a position to give the Senator an undertaking to do it now. Like the last point, if I have not fully investigated it, I have to go back, otherwise I will have committed myself legally to something which will be problematic from a legal point of view. I am trying to make myself clear and I hope I am getting the message across.