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Seanad: Mental Health and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (24 Feb 2022)

Martin Conway: I also welcome Minister of State, Senator Hackett, and her daughter to the Chamber. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, who has become a regular visitor, is very welcome to the House. I know this particular issue is of great interest to you, a Chathaoirligh, given the locality involved. What happened should not have happened, but it did happen. It is not about what happened but about...

Seanad: Situation in the Middle East: Statements (1 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: The Minister of State, Deputy Burke, is very welcome, as always. Clearly this debate is very impassioned. I will start by saying there are wrongs on all sides with this. There is no doubt the Palestinian people have suffered greatly over the years. I have not studied the Amnesty International report in great detail. Amnesty as an organisation has done more good than bad in the world as a...

Seanad: Situation in Ukraine: Statements (1 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I am aware of his own personal commitment to this issue from the meeting of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly yesterday, and so on. What is happening in Ukraine is quite appalling. However, we must remember that what happened in Georgia in 2005, and in Crimea in 2014, was appalling. Yet, the world stood by and allowed Vladimir Putin to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: I thank the Leader and the Cathaoirleach for facilitating the debate on Ukraine last night. A lot of emotion was shown and a clear message was articulated by this House on the ongoing situation in Ukraine.We now need to move onto more focused discussions on Ukraine. We need a specific debate on sanctions. How will the sanctions impact on us? What is the role of the IFSC? We all know if...

Seanad: Credit Union Sector: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I commend him on the steady manner in which he is going about his business and serving the people he is honoured to represent. The manner in which credit unions have succeeded over the years has been phenomenally Irish. In my home town, Ennistymon, I was born and grew up next door to a credit union. That credit union has provided incredible...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: I support Senator McGahon's proposal to invite EU Commissioner Ms Mairead McGuinness to the House to discuss the sanctions. I am sure the Commissioner, who is from Ireland, would be very happy to address the Seanad on the mechanisms and methodologies being used to impose sanctions on Russia. Hopefully, we will see uniformity across Europe and the world in the imposition of these sanctions....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: I thank VBI for their presentation. I have no doubt that there are people whose health the organisation has helped. I understand that there are roughly 300 vape shops in the country. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: How many of those does VBI represent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: Could I put it to Mr. Dunne that it is less than 5%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: VBI's submission states that it sets a very high standard or criteria for being a member of the organisation, which is great. However, forgive me for suggesting that approximately 95% of the vape shops in the country clearly either do not want to or fail to meet VBI’s criteria because they are not members of the organisation. I do not doubt the Mr. Dunne's integrity and the way he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: How many suppliers on average would a vape shop have?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: How many of those suppliers are owned by the cigarette industry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: Okay. What about the 95% of shops that are not part of Mr. O'Boyle's organisation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: I am conscious of time. How many of the 95% of vape shops not in Mr. O'Boyle's organisation are either owned by cigarette companies, be that either wholly or in the form of shares? It could be through the front door or the back door.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: How many shops in total of the 300?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: There is the problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: I will share my time with Deputy Griffin who is from the constituency and has worked extensively on this. I have considerable regard for Ms O'Connor and the work she does but, I have to say, what has been revealed here this morning in terms of a management structure is breathtaking. People were reporting to people but, clearly, no reporting was being done at all. The structure was so...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: Is that structure, where supervisors are in place who only supervise when asked to do so, applicable across the service, nationally?