Colm Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

While I agree with my colleagues on the principle, it is a case of over-regulation through legislation at this stage. There is the argument that people who smoke make a contribution through a level of taxation on cigarettes. There are a huge number of programmes in place which are doing everything possible to encourage people to move away from smoking. I do not think that the insertion of a regulation such as this would assist in those programmes and on that basis it would not be appropriate to amend the Bill going through the House.