Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I have a very quick comment on the point about living in the real world. In the lifetime of the Government, we have seen, for the first time in 25 years, an increase in young people starting to smoke and vape.

We are talking about nicotine replacement therapy or treatment as a temporary issue, but that is not what we are talking about when we talk about vaping. We are talking about permanent addiction. I know we are trying to ban advertising to children and flavouring, but ultimately we cannot place vaping and NRT in the same category without qualifying that. I do not think it is unreasonable for a State to try to dissuade people from the permanent addiction space.