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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Programme (20 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: The Government Legislation Programme, which was published on 16th January 2024, sets out Government legislative priorities for the current parliamentary session. The current programme includes 46 bills for priority publication and drafting across a number of areas including healthcare, access to housing, stronger safer communities and road safety, amongst many others during the Spring...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Programme (20 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: The Government Legislation Programme, which was published on 16th January 2024, sets out Government legislative priorities for the current parliamentary session. The current programme includes 46 bills for priority publication and drafting across a number of areas including healthcare, access to housing, stronger safer communities and road safety, amongst many others during the Spring...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Programme (20 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: The Government Legislation Programme, which was published on 16th January 2024, sets out Government legislative priorities for the current parliamentary session. The current programme includes 46 bills for priority publication and drafting across a number of areas including healthcare, access to housing, stronger safer communities and road safety, amongst many others during the Spring...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Programme (20 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: The Government Legislation Programme, which was published on 16th January 2024, sets out Government legislative priorities for the current parliamentary session. The current programme includes 46 bills for priority publication and drafting across a number of areas including healthcare, access to housing, stronger safer communities and road safety, amongst many others during the Spring...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 29th March, 2023, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those set down to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence: Minister for Further and Higher Education,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Chair. I was here two weeks ago as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: No problem. Good morning. I thank the committee for the invitation to address it about public health and the commercial determinants of health. I was here two weeks ago with the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, to discuss the Department of Health's 2024 Estimates process and I mentioned some of our key Healthy Ireland initiatives on that occasion. The committee indicated that it would like to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Senator for his questions. I will start with the question relating to further regulation of tobacco and nicotine inhaling products. As he is aware, we have banned the sale of vapes for under-18s. In January, we had a public consultation process which closed at the end of that month. It was set up to help to inform further legislation which will be required on this issue. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: The budget extends beyond €16.3 million and that is just for Healthy Ireland. We have a health and well-being programme as well, Safefood Ireland and the Food Safety Authority of Ireland so calculating the total spend is difficult. Let us consider Healthy Ireland alone. It started with a budget of €5 million and now has over €16 million. Plus, I secured extra funding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: The Deputy has posed a very important question about how we target the marketing for young people and, as she said, cut it off at source. The best way to do that right now is through Coimisiún na Meán. Officials within Coimisiún na Meán are working on that. Coimisiún na Meán was established in 2023 following the enactment of the Online Safety and Media...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: The Deputy has said "it is not happening". In 2023, Coimisiún na Meán was established. My officials have already met officials from Coimisiún na Meán about this matter. This will be the regulation and the law around targeting the marketing, and specifically targeting young children, so it is happening right now. The latest meeting of officials took place two weeks ago...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: It is not an excuse. It is a fact.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: There has been work on reformulation with the industry and I can talk to the Deputy separately about that. My officials are now engaging with An Coimisiún na Meán in respect of the targeting of young children with high salt and high fat and are dealing with those areas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: We are working on a number of areas here, one of which is food reformulation. Currently, in Ireland, that is voluntary. A task force established in 2021 was given a mandate to drive the delivery of the food reformulation roadmap to 2025. A significant volume of work has been done by that task force in engaging with industry, educating it on food reformulation and working with, for example,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: There is the reformulation, which will be reviewed, and the sugar-sweetened drinks tax, on which we will be getting feedback in respect of how it has worked-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I am coming to that.