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Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Vincent P Martin: ...young people rely on single-use vapes. Single-use vapes contain lithium batteries and other toxic materials and are frequently littered, causing pollution. They cannot be recycled and are a very wasteful use of precious resources. Single-use vapes are becoming a blight on the environment and are very difficult to manage.This legislative initiative is a step in the right direction. I...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Second Stage (29 Sep 2021)

Vincent P Martin: ...as saying that Ireland is both a destination and source country for human trafficking, including people trafficked for sexual exploitation, domestic work, fishing, agriculture, the hospitality sector, waste management, and car washing services among others. As other speakers said, this is not some invisible economy at work. Perhaps prostitution is done in quiet places in the dark. In the...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2021)

Vincent P Martin: I will be brief because the ground has been well covered. I followed the debate on Second Stage remotely and from my recollection, there was a further example given of a member of school board of management being put through the hoops on this. As has been said a number of times, a member of the national executive of the Labour Party - and, no doubt, of the Green Party even though we do not...