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)

Mr. John Dunne:

Absolutely. However, there is a lack of consensus on this issue in terms of the viewpoints of sister organisations. For example, there is a significant difference between the viewpoints on vaping of Cancer Research UK and the Irish Cancer Society. Those organisations are in the same business of public health. It confuses me that there is such a difference between NGOs in this country and the same type of NGOs in the UK, for instance. Irish people are not genetically different from people in those countries.