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16th May 2016
12:26pm BST
The Minister, who is a smoker himself, claims that smokers are soft targets for the government.
The 63-year-old said that while visiting other countries like Portugal, he has seen the success of designated indoor smoking areas and suggests Ireland should follow suit.
Speaking in an interview with the Sunday Business Post, minister McGrath said
"I was in Portugal with the justice committee two years ago and I saw it first-hand." "... I was in Germany a couple of years ago and - I think it was Frankfurt - they had a similar position and I saw it working."McGrath stressed that his comments on designated smoking areas represented his own “personal, private view” and that he would not be repeating them in a ministerial capacity. He has said that he will support the government’s commitment to making Ireland tobacco free within the next ten years.
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