Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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I refer to the measures that have been recommended by the RCPI, the Irish Heart Foundation and the Irish Cancer Society. As I see it, those organisations are coming at this purely from a public health perspective. There seems to be a sharp difference between how they see it and how Vape Business Ireland sees it.

I have a question on flavouring in the minute and a half I have left. Obviously, there are numerous studies on flavouring and one can take an à la carteapproach in terms of sources and citing some of them but not all of them, as is the case in the context of any issue. Is it not the case, however, that the EU Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks found "strong evidence that flavours have a relevant contribution for attractiveness of use of electronic cigarette and initiation" and specifically so when it comes to children?