Written answers

Wednesday, 22 April 2009

Department of Health and Children

Tobacco-Related Diseases

10:00 pm

Photo of Andrew DoyleAndrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 299: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has conducted a regulatory impact analysis on the effects of the costs incurred on foot of implementing the regulations governing the display of cigarettes in convenience stores and local newsagents; and her views on alternative regulations that would be less costly to implement for the small retailers. [15448/09]

Photo of Mary HarneyMary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The measures in question were provided for in legislation enacted by the Oireachtas in 2002 and confirmed again by Government and the Oireachtas in 2004 prior to the Government's decision of 21 June 2005 that Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) should be carried out on all proposals for primary legislation.

I do not believe that these measures, which will come into effect on 1 July next, will impose onerous obligations on tobacco retailers.

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