PQ 244
244. Deputy Joe McHugh asked the Minister for Health his views on the decision in July 2009 by the International Agency for Research on Cancer to place sunbeds in the highest cancer risk category and its rating of sunbeds as carcinogenic together with tobacco and plutonium; if plans are being developed to regulate sunbeds here; the increase in incidence of skin cancer here that has been observed between 1994 and 2010; when the relevant legislation will be progressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34080/13]
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McHugh, Joe.
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244. Deputy Joe McHugh asked the Minister for Health his views on the decision in July 2009 by the International Agency for Research on Cancer to place sunbeds in the highest cancer risk category and its rating of sunbeds as carcinogenic together with tobacco and plutonium; if plans are being developed to regulate sunbeds here; the increase in incidence of skin cancer here that has been observed between 1994 and 2010; when the relevant legislation will be progressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34080/13]
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11 July 2013
Sunbed Usage
244. Deputy Joe McHugh asked the Minister for Health his views on the decision in July 2009 by the International Agency for Research on Cancer to place sunbeds in the highest cancer risk category and its rating of sunbeds as carcinogenic together with tobacco and plutonium; if plans are being developed to regulate sunbeds here; the increase in incidence of skin cancer here that has been observed between 1994 and 2010; when the relevant legislation will be progressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34080/13]
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