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THE DÁIL HAS voted in in favour of banning the sale of vaping products to under 18s this evening.
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said the legislation will now move to the Seanad for approval, with the intention of government to have the new law in place “as soon as possible”.
The legislation includes a wide-ranging measures to tackle smoking and vaping among children and adults, including the banning of the sale of tobacco products and nicotine inhaling products at events for children.
It will also prohibit the self-service sale of tobacco products and nicotine inhaling products.
A strict licensing system for retailers is also to be introduced for those that wish to sell tobacco products and vaping products.
Under the new law, advertising of vaping products around schools and on public transport will be banned.
Additional enforcement powers are also to be given to the Environmental Health Service to enforcement the new rules.
Donnelly said this evening that he is delighted that the Bill, which will ensure that children cannot legally buy nicotine inhaling products such as e-cigarettes, has passed all stages of the Dáil.
“I look forward to introducing this measure as soon as possible. We are also introducing a licensing system for both tobacco products and nicotine inhaling products in order to better reflect the potentially harmful nature of the products being sold. Under the new system, retailers will have to apply for and be granted an annual licence for the sale of these product,” he said.
Junior Minister for Health Hildegarde Naughton said Ireland is recognised as a global leader in tobacco control.
“We are continuing to innovate with the measures in this Bill with a particular focus on children,” she said, stating the new regulations will reduce the exposure of such products to children in their daily lives.
If you use apps that require access to your contacts and your bookmarks and your location and the other stuff… You cannot act shocked that this data is used by companies (and governments) to profile you. It’s the payoff for free maps and apps unfortunately.
Agreed. Once you put your information out there – no matter what data protection or other such promises are made, no matter how safe they tell you it is – you are safer to assume that the whole world knows about it. Laws exist preventing anyone accessing your information without your knowledge or consent, but when it comes to governments and such powers you may as well wipe your backside with the paper the laws are written on because they will do whatever they want, regardless of what the laws say. You can take that as a fact written in stone.
Bad piggies!
Nothing written here shocks me. If you use Facebook, Twitter or download games or movies, it’s more then likely going to be tracked by someone
They couldn’t give us a hand with candy crush no ?
117 – been stuck for weeks.
I’d like to blame the NSA……
Thats it then, the AL Ka-ee-da are finished. Thats how they caught Bin Laden you know. And the poor fecker had just collected his last golden egg!
Are you one of these misguided person who think they caught Osama bin scapegoat
Hi there! Jim Corr is it?
App deleted
Kind of puts their “targeted surveillance” nonsense to bed though, doesn’t it?
I don’t think many terrorists play these games.
According to Rovio, it may be the third-party Ad networks where the NSA/GCQH get their access.
Either way, we’re all correct in saying “this doesn’t shock us”, but it’s also still illegal, immoral (they don’t exclude your kids from the dragnet….) and being done with “our” money (by which I mean mostly UKUSA tax revenue…..perhaps ours too though??).
Would anybody not be a little pi$$ed off if your Govt was wasting money on this type of thing, regardless of the whole spying on everyone all the time aspect? It’s profiling, pure and simple.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/nasa-and-britains-gchq-mapping-political-alignments-of-millions-of-smartphone-users-worldwide/5366496
We can be both unsurprised AND angry. Just let’s not be dismissive. Or even worse, bored. It’s important.
This guy doesn’t write to movie stars he writes to movies.
Dear Mad Max,
Do you know Die Hard?
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