John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On the review piece, I am not sure whether there is flexibility to review some aspects of it earlier than other aspects. As the Minister said, some parts of the Bill can be enacted immediately while we will wait for other parts to be enacted. In regard to parts on banning vaping products for children, three years seems a long time. If the tobacco companies or other companies find some way of circumventing it, we may have to wait for three years. The Minister said two years but I ask the Minister and his officials to consider as tight a schedule as possible in this regard.

Clearly, the Minister has to have some kind of a landscape visible to him as to how the law is performing. I accept that it will take more than a year to get realistic statistics and figures on that. As the Minister said, there is a period in which those have to be collated, prepared and presented to him for consideration.

The committee's view would be that we want to see that the law is effective, as I know the Minister does. Whatever mechanism he can introduce in terms of the review to do that as speedily and as efficiently as possible would be appreciated.