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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: How would this proposal improve or help Cork Airport?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I remind Members to ensure their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting, please, as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment, even when on silent mode. This meeting has been convened for the purposes of consideration of the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014. I welcome the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy James Reilly,...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Does any Member wish to make an opening statement?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: As Chairman of the committee, I join Deputy Ó Caoláin in standing with the Minister and complimenting and commending him. It is wholly inappropriate that as the elected Members of Parliament we are threatened by the tobacco industry. It is very important that in this public health initiative we send a statement not just to citizens, but across the Western world that we are in...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I will allow the Deputy to comment on a different section.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy may raise her point on cigars in discussing section 10.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Mitchell O’Connor should speak on the Bill please.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy should stick to the Bill.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I join Deputy Kelleher in asking the Minister to ensure that another generation will not be enslaved to nicotine. I, too, am concerned about vaping. We have to take vaping very seriously because there is a movement to vape in an enclosed space or in a pub. Has the Department taken the initiative and commissioned research on this or have we conducted research on the dangers presented at...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: What I meant is that we should use this Bill as the propellant to do other things around the issue of vaping that will act as a deterrent in the interest of public health. I think, like Deputy Kelleher, that we have allowed a nicotine culture to develop and vaping is seen by some people to be cool and safe.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Deputies Kelleher, Ó Caoláin and Healy, as well as other members of the committee, for facilitating the Bill being taken today in advance of tomorrow's national no-smoking day. It is important that we all subscribe to having a tobacco-free Ireland. I thank the committee members for their assistance and co-operation. I hope we will have a tobacco-free Ireland. Let us...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (17 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: In accordance with Standing Order 87, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Sub-Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014 and has made amendments thereto.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (19 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the further details required for an appeal, in respect of an application for a student grant, to be considered (details supplied); if all supporting documentation supplied to Student Universal Support Ireland, with the initial application, has been forwarded to the Student Grants Appeals Board; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy James Reilly, and his officials led by the new Secretary General at the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, Dr. Fergal Lynch, with whom we look forward to a positive working relationship. We formally congratulate him on his appointment. This is our regular quarterly meeting with the Minister on issues concerning the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I join in congratulating Dr. Muldoon on his appointment as Ombudsman for Children. In due course the committee will invite him to outline his views on his office. I speak for all the committee members who were there when I share the joy we experienced at holding our meeting at the Comhairle na n-Óg event in Croke Park. I want to thank all the officials in the Department of Children...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I congratulate Deputy McLellan on her appointment as the Sinn Féin spokesperson on children.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: She is very welcome on her debut day as her party's lead spokesperson.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I invite the Minister to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister. I will chair the meeting.