Ms Siobháin Brophy:

A number of countries in the EU have done it and others are proposing to do it. Hungary has done and Lithuania is considering it. There is a potential role for restricting flavours favoured by children, which other countries have examined. Once this proposed legislation comes into force, it will be interesting to see the impact of banning the product to under-18s. Given that 38% of people who try to quit smoking use e-cigarettes, there is a question as to whether, if we were to cut off the type of e-cigarette they might use, we risk them not using a safer product to give up a product that kills two of every three people who use it. Should we try to find out what flavours people are using to try to give up and whether we can identify a limited number of flavours? That may be a way of doing it. There are definitely measures we can consider that other countries are taking.