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 Seán CroweSeán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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The members of the group before the committee earlier stated they did not believe e-cigarettes should be sold to young people but the online market is quite big and became bigger during the pandemic. They would say it is because people could not get access and so on. Do the witnesses have any recommendations? For example, if the legislation was changed to ban sales to those under 21 years, how would that be enacted? At the moment, it is a box-ticking exercise. Anyone who ticks "Yes, I'm an adult" can get the product. Can that be tightened up?