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A LETTER WAS issued to all retailers yesterday informing business owners that from next year they must pay for a licence to sell tobacco or vaping products.
Currently, retailers selling tobacco products must pay a once-off fee of €50 and there are no requirements for businesses selling nicotine-inhaling products to pay a fee.
Correspondence issued by the government yesterday, and seen by The Journal, informs retailers that from February they must register with the HSE to sell tobacco products as the registration scheme will be replaced with an annual licencing system.
Business owners are told they will legally be required to apply for a licence, which will cost €1,000 for tobacco products and €800 for retail nicotine inhaling products.
In addition, the letter reminds retailers that if they import nicotine inhaling products into Ireland from another country outside the European Union, including Great Britain, they have extra legal responsibilities, including ensuring the safety and quality of products you obtain and sell to the public.
“By law, you are responsible for the non-compliant products found in your shop. Where the HSE finds non-complaint and unsafe products on the Irish market legal sanctions will be taken against you to ensure the protection of the public up to and including product seizure, product destruction and prosecutions,” states the letter.
The Journal Investigates went undercover late last year and revealed that at 13 Dublin locations, vapes were available to purchase that failed to meet an aspect of EU regulations or breached rules.
The investigation uncovered expired products for sale at three locations, while packaging did not include the correct health warnings at 12 locations. Perhaps of greater concern, products containing more than the legal limit of e-liquid were found at two locations.
The aim of the new licence system for retailers is that the new regime will act as a disincentive to businesses seeking to sell tobacco and nicotine inhaling products. It is also hoped the annual fee will help reduce the number of outlets where vapes are sold.
The letter sent to businesses yesterday includes a reminder that selling a tobacco product or nicotine inhaling product to a child carries a penalty fine of up to €4,000 and a six-month term of imprisonment.
It goes on to state that breaching tobacco legislation may also result in a fine up to €5,000 or to an imprisonment term up to 12 months or both, depending on the offence committed.
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Why don’t ye invent horse free meatballs ?
Didn’t take long……
Sky +. No more arguments about missing your favourite programme. The best invention by far in our house – the blessed record button !!!!
Thanks be to Sky
Even with Sky+ people cancel. Or they clash. The old way I think the best.
And there was I thinking it was Divorce that stopped domestic rows.
Me and the wife have the two sided elec blanket one in her room and one on mine.
Why do women always leave the toilet seat down ????
To keep the smell of the last man to use it at bay!
Everyone knows that girls are smelly and ugly! Why else would you wear make-up and perfume?
They must be queuing out the door with smooth talking like that…..
There’s a two-sided electric blanket…? How am I only hearing of this now…?
I know. I never heard of that until now.
Have 1 for years , bought in a small hardware shop in Goresbridge !
I never got the whole toilet seat thing.
You share?
Yeah, I prefer half toilets too.
Try aiming Gary..
The dishwasher is a total waste of money!! Hasn’t it been scientifically proven that women are better and faster dishwashers than machines?
Now that is the saddest comment of the year so far.
I don’t see a wife shutter upper machine on the list. We have the flippy toothpaste at home and I leave it open most of the time and I wouldn’t have an electric jacks seat in case I got a shock when my aim goes wonky after a few beers.
Eastenders and holby city buys me some peace every now and then
And we don’t have rows,because I’m right all of the time.
No disrespect meant Susan and point taken with my apologies.
Hey, no worries Glenn!
The automatic toilet seat is ridiculous. A better idea would be a toilet that will not flush until the lid is put down. It will solve the seat up/down argument and be much more hygienic, saving toothbrushes from micro-spray of fecal contaminants.
Why aren’t hurleys mentioned?
I just got sucked/tricked into reading an advertisement.. sneaky TheJournal.. very sneaky!! Now, can I have my two minutes back please?
Hi Thomas, Please note the reply to Glenn (above). This is clearly marked as a sponsored post, with branding and placed in a specially bordered box which shows that it is an ad and not a regular TheJournal.ie article. If you choose to click and read after all those flags, then that’s entirely your responsibility. We’re not in the business of tricking anybody (and I hope you enjoyed it anyway!).
Thanks, Susan, Editor, TheJournal.ie.
Thanks Susan – sure I was only messin’ – I enjoyed it so much I read it twice! :)
Thomas, did we just have our first domestic? To make up for it, I’ll load the dishwasher for a month ;)
So Ikea sponsor the Journal and now contribute editorials. They could do with learning what’s newsworthy and what isn’t.
Hi Glenn, This is clearly marked as a sponsored post, branded and posted in a specially flagged/bordered box to show so. There is no attempt to hide this and it is up to you whether you want to click into the ad and read it or not.
Thanks, Susan, Editor, TheJournal.ie.
I love the way you sneaked that ADD IN . Priceless .
Well done susan,ive no problem with the dishes,just eat in the mistresses house.
How are the meatballs going lads?
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