Health Committee to publish report on Tobacco plain packaging Bill

The report on the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013 will be presented to the Minister for Health James Reilly TD on the plinth at Leinster House at 12 noon and will be published on the Oireachtas.ie website.

Committee Chairman, Jerry Buttimer TD said: “Over the past number of months the Committee has conducted a series of pre-legislative hearings on this Bill which proposes to introduce standardised packaging for all tobacco products and also determine the size and position of health warnings on cigarette packets. Tomorrow, the Committee will publish its report which will contain a number of recommendations and observations.”

Event: Presentation of report on the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013 to the Minister for Health James Reilly TD
Location: The Plinth, Leinster House
Date: Thursday, 3rd April 2014
Time: 12 noon

Media Enquiries to:

Ciaran Brennan,
Houses of the Oireachtas,
Communications Unit,
Leinster House,
Dublin 2

Committee Membership:

Deputies: Jerry Buttimer (Chair), Catherine Byrne, Ciara Conway (Vice-Chair), Regina Doherty, Robert Dowds, Peter M Fitzpatrick, Seamus Healy, Billy Kelleher, Eamonn Maloney, Mattie McGrath, Sandra McLellan, Dan Neville, Mary Mitchell O’Connor, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin and Robert Troy

Senators: Colm Burke, John Crown, John Gilroy, Imelda Henry, Marc Mac Sharry and Jillian Van Turnhout