Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 265: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform his plans to regulate the placing of magazines with adult content on shelves in retail outlets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48009/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I can inform the Deputy that any person may make a complaint regarding a publication to the independent Censorship of Publications Board in accordance with the provisions of the Censorship of Publications legislation, and in particular the Censorship of Publications Regulations, 1980. The Board's only function is to decide whether or not to prohibit a publication. In the event that a publication is prohibited it is an offence to sell or distribute that publication. Neither my Department nor the Board has any power to apply restrictions with respect to the display in retail outlets of items which are not prohibited under the Act.