Ms Averil Power:

We also know there would be support from many businesses for that. Businesses have raised with us the fact that it makes them very uncomfortable. Restaurant representatives have told me previously that it puts them in a really uncomfortable position when, for example, they have a vaper at one table who insists that he or she has the right to vape while customers sitting beside the vaper feel really uncomfortable about the impact on them. Restaurant owners would prefer to be able to say that the law states that people cannot vape indoors rather than being in that invidious position. If the committee could consider adding that to the Bill, we would be very supportive.