Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We were referring to regulation and the difficulty of banning a particular product. I cite the example of the head shops and some of the drugs that were coming in. The shops then changed the names or changed one of the elements of a product and so on. This presented difficulties for legislators in trying to keep up with that, which was almost impossible. Are we into a similar situation with some of the e-cigarettes in the sense that these additives are potentially harmful? Is there anything we can firm up in this legislation around this part of it, if there are concerns about some of the additives? I believe people can make up their own minds where they believe it is less harmful than tobacco cigarettes and whether they feel e-cigarettes can progress them away from tobacco cigarette products to make them give up. This was included in submissions made to us and included some information coming from Public Health England around that.