Patricia Ryan (Kildare South, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I agree with Mr. Macey completely. I see it at first hand. I have been dealing with people who would have been very obese and were perhaps dealing with gastric bypasses or gastric sleeves and so on. Since Covid, and I believe we are all a little guilty, people may have gone back to their old ways. Perhaps it is for another committee but we must discuss the fact that people who may have had the surgery are being left and have not been dealt with since Covid. Maybe we need to be re-educating them. In some cases, many of them are going back to their old ways and one will see that the weight is creeping on after surgery. Maybe we need to target people like that who have had surgeries. I do not know how we would deal with that but perhaps it is something we need to look at also.

Does Mr. Macey have any comment to make on the impact of the current taxation of alcohol and tobacco and how it should evolve going forward?