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Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: That is overly purist. I do not understand that approach.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: I ask that we confine discussion to the amendment that is before us.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: I agree that this is a purist position. I understand the logic of it but I agree we have to live in the real world. When we were discussing the Bill within my party, I spoke to former smokers who said that, without vaping, they would still be smoking. That is particularly relevant in the context of Bills being brought forward that deal specifically with vaping. The public health view...

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: Does the Minister want to respond to Deputy Cullinane now or should I bring in another speaker?

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I have a very quick comment on the point about living in the real world. In the lifetime of the Government, we have seen, for the first time in 25 years, an increase in young people starting to smoke and vape. We are talking about nicotine replacement therapy or treatment as a temporary issue, but that is not what we are talking about when we talk about vaping. We are talking about...

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: It is not a case of either-or.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: It is not a question for the Minister.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: To make it short, it appears that there is different advice in the UK. If the intention is to achieve the same objective, why do we have different advice from that in the UK? This has been raised with all of us from time to time. I am a former smoker, who smoked for 27 years. I stopped by going cold turkey - just like that - but I know people who did not stop and who still continue to...

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: If that were the case, it would be all the more reason to consider amendment No. 2 and all that it calls for to be of value and assist any future Minister in that regard.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: My reason for raising this matter here today is that it is the only opportunity to hear from the Minister about his thinking. This measure will come in with the Finance Bill on Wednesday, as it is a provision of that Bill.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Is there any chance the Minister could send us a note on the rationale for it?

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: I thank the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, and his officials for attending today's meeting, and for the work that has been done on this matter.

Select Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (10 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the Public Health (Tobacco)(Amendment) Bill 2024 and has made no amendments thereto.

Select Committee on Health: Business of Select Committee (10 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: I have been asked that we would discuss the Supplementary Estimate for the Department next week. I suggest we have the meeting on Wednesday. If not then, it will be on Thursday at 5.30 p.m. We cancelled the discussion of cardiac services.

Select Committee on Health: Business of Select Committee (10 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Thursday, at 5.30 p.m. might be too late.

Select Committee on Health: Business of Select Committee (10 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: We will have the Minister back in again.

Select Committee on Health: Business of Select Committee (10 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: That is three weeks in a row.

Select Committee on Health: Business of Select Committee (10 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: I have an important meeting in Wicklow-----

Select Committee on Health: Business of Select Committee (10 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: The meeting is now adjourned.

World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister of State. That concludes statements to mark World Mental Health Day: Making Mental Health a Priority for Everyone.