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[Department of Children and Youth Affairs] Dr James Reilly, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs was today the keynote speaker at the 16th World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. (19 Mar 2015)


The conference is held once every three years and is the most important international gathering which consider the dangers of smoking to our health.

Dr Reilly was invited to speak at the conference where he outlined the challenges involved in Ireland becoming only the second country in the world to introduce plain packaging (or Standardised Packaging) for tobacco products.

Please find enclosed a link to the video stream. Dr Reilly starts to speak at 6 minutes 37 seconds into the stream.

Please also find attached the script delivered by Dr Reilly


Link to video stream http://goo.gl/HwHNL2

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