Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2024-11-07
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Stephen Donnelly (FF), Wicklow

I will leave that to the House. I am satisfied that the Attorney General between 1999 and 2002 was an eminent individual for whom I have great respect. When this Bill was crafted, it will have received advice at the time which was solid because it has held up for 22 years. I am not concerned. It is more or less a copy and paste. It does not add to what is a very reasonable question on the extent to which it is self-evident what the law means when someone produces a fraudulent age card. If somebody came in who, under the law today, under the 2002 Act-----

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Sitting date: 2024-11-07