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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Seán Crowe: Do the witnesses have a view on the process for approving products? Could anything else be tightened up in that regard? How reliable are the statistics relating to the time of the Covid pandemic? Are they a blip? The witnesses spoke about the pressure people were under and so on. Everything was abnormal. Alcohol sales were probably also up during that period. There is anecdotal...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Seán Crowe: The positive thing is that there is common agreement. Even those selling the product believe the ban should be introduced. It is up to us to determine the most effective way to do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Seán Crowe: On that positive note, we will end the meeting. I appreciate the witnesses' contributions this morning which have really helped the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Seán Crowe: If we talk about a ban on something, people will look for an alternative. In that context, the online alternative seems to be wide open. I asked the previous group about the ban on smoking in public buildings, restaurants and pubs. We hear of passive smoking. Are there harmful effects for people in the company of vapers? Is there an impact on children when the adult or parent is vaping...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Seán Crowe: This meeting has been convened to consider the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2022: Vote 38, Department of Health. While the committee has no role in approving the Estimates, there is an opportunity for it to make the scrutiny of the budgetary performance of the Department more transparent. The briefing prepared for the secretariat illustrates the difference between the previous...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Seán Crowe: We all agree with the Minister's sentiments on Ukraine. We propose to take members in ten-minute slots. I hope we will all have more than one round.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Seán Crowe: I call Deputy Cullinane.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Seán Crowe: We are talking about Estimates.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Seán Crowe: Is that okay with the Minister of State? Yes, she will furnish a written reply to the Deputy. I call Deputy Cullinane.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Seán Crowe: We are flexible enough if the Minister wants to expand.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Seán Crowe: Deputy Durkan has indicated-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Seán Crowe: I have a couple of questions also.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Seán Crowe: That is grand.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Seán Crowe: I have a few questions. The proposed allocation of funds to projects under the national children's hospital come under subhead M2 What is the proposed allocation? When members of the board of the hospital appeared before the committee we asked them what the final cost of the hospital will be but we did not get any satisfactory answers. Does the Minister have a sense of what the final cost...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Seán Crowe: Under another subhead, there has been a slight increase in the allocation for legal fees and settlements in 2022. Is there any significance in that?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Seán Crowe: Legal fees and settlements is what is stated in the Revised Estimates.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Seán Crowe: Not specifically that hospital but across the board.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Seán Crowe: There has been increase in the spend on ICT under subhead A5. There was an increase in expenditure on cybersecurity in 2022. The difficulties with respect to ICT following the cyberattack were raised by many groups that appeared before the committee. Has the Minister a sense of what that expenditure involves?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Seán Crowe: When some groups involved in the drugs task forces appeared before the committee they spoke of the challenges facing many community due to crack cocaine crisis.