Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The official advice from the HSE for smokers is not to take up vaping but to use nicotine replacement therapy, NRT. As the Deputy is aware, we have made those products free. The initial indications are positive in terms of the impact that is having. What the Minister, Deputy Chambers, did by way of taxation is consistent with our public health position, which is not to move people from smoking to vaping but to move them off smoking through NRT, which we have made free.