Mr. John Dunne:

As we said, nobody is saying and nobody has ever said that vaping is 100% safe. Nothing that we do in this world is 100% safe. We are saying that you have to look at it as a risk reduction strategy. The Deputy mentioned a US study. As I said earlier, the US market is very different than the market here in Ireland or the EU. It is a currently unregulated market.

I have looked at a study that just came up in November by five British universities. They looked at 58 studies of 500,000 young people aged under 18 in the UK, Canada and the US. Professor Caitlin Notley, from the University of East Anglia's Norwich medical school, stated there is a lot of concern that young people might start vaping because they are attracted to e-liquid flavours, which could potentially lead to them smoking and that they wanted to find out more. Now what they found-----