Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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103. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be generated through increasing the tax on cigarettes by €0.50. [29520/15]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that the estimated yield that could be raised in a full year through increasing the tax on cigarettes by 50 cents per packet of 20, with a pro rate increase on other tobacco products, is in the region of €60m, assuming no change in consumer behaviour.