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Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Members have just delayed the banning of vapes to children by about eight months. Congratulations. Extraordinary work. This is some of the most cynical politics I have seen Deputy Shortall engage in. This is children's health we are talking about and she has been around this place long enough to understand European law. It is deeply cynical.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Members have just tried to delay the banning of the sale of vapes to children.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: How extraordinary.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: How extraordinary. That is what Deputy Shortall just tried to do.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: She should be ashamed of herself. She is playing politics with children's health. That is what she is doing.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: She has been here long enough to know. She is putting children's health at risk through cynical politics.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: No.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: May I respond to that?

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I hear you. Thanks, Chair.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: As previously, I agree with the intent here. We are going to legislate and we will be doing so in a way that does not delay the intent of this Bill, including, obviously, the sale of vapes to minors. I hear Deputy Shortall, but we in government are responsible for our actions and we are held to account by the Opposition, rightly, for what we do. If the Deputy takes an action that I believe...

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The Deputy and I have debated in this committee room many times. I find her comments utterly disingenuous and cynical. What she is doing is playing around with timing and words, which she is very good at, but ultimately what she is doing is potentially delaying a ban on the sale of vapes to children. She knows that is what she is doing. She is probably the most experienced person in the...

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The advice given to me is that amendment No. 3 will hopefully not delay it, but the amendment that has just been voted on and this amendment would delay it.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The amendment we just voted on, amendment No. 4, would have delayed it.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: My advice is that amendment No. 3-----

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Amendment No. 6 would delay the legislation.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Amendment No. 6, which we are on now. Amendment No. 4, which we just voted on and amendments Nos. 7 and 8, and amendment No. 2. Amendments Nos. 1, 3, and 9 should not.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: My comments relate to amendment No. 4, which we voted on, and this amendment as well.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Deputy Shortall knows very well-----

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Amendments Nos. 7 and 8 seek to prohibit the advertising of nicotine-inhaling products, including online advertising. The amendments replace section 29, which prohibits advertising near schools and playgrounds as well as on public transport, and oppose section 30, which prohibits the advertising of nicotine-inhaling products in a cinema. The 2014 EU tobacco products directive prohibited...

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Yes, there are two separate risks with this proposal and, indeed, the other proposal if we are to do them in this Bill. The first, which we definitely know, is that this Bill will be delayed because we are legally obliged to go through the EU directive. It is also possible that the Commission would come back and say "No" on some of them. We had to go through a very significant process, for...