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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Department of Health (3 Nov 2021)

Seán Crowe: No problem at all. Could I have Deputy Durkan next, please? How are you, Deputy Durkan? You are still on mute. Maybe we should leave you like that, should we? You can hear me. You are still on mute. Will you put on a headset, Deputy Durkan, if you have one? I am sorry about this. That is still not working, Deputy Durkan. Do you want to come down if you are in your office and maybe I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Department of Health (3 Nov 2021)

Seán Crowe: It was not during pandemic years that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Department of Health (3 Nov 2021)

Seán Crowe: Was that just a blip or do we need more research on it? Is it a one-off? Are there plans for more research on this? It is worrying that this is happening after 25 years. Are there particular reasons this has happened at this particular time? During the pandemic people have been told they are going to die, so long-term life considerations go out the window for many people, but for young...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Department of Health (3 Nov 2021)

Seán Crowe: It is the age at which young people experiment and they will try different things. As for older ages, every year, including in the most recent budget, the price of tobacco and other nicotine products has been increased. Many people make the argument that this will only make people who have an addiction try to get the products somewhere else. Every time the price of cigarettes is increased,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Department of Health (3 Nov 2021)

Seán Crowe: It is those types of messages we need to focus on, particularly for young people. Deputy Gould spoke about the smell of the product on a person's clothes and breath. There is also the impact it has on health but that seems to be secondary for many young people who start smoking. I am not convinced by the idea of censoring images of people smoking in old films and so on. On some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Department of Health (3 Nov 2021)

Seán Crowe: We might have time for that. Deputy Colm Burke is waiting to come in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Department of Health (3 Nov 2021)

Seán Crowe: I agree. I think we all have evidence and know of people who have been told that they will lose limbs because of smoking and they have lost limbs. I know of one man who lost two limbs because of his smoking habit, which eventually killed him. It is very easy for us to tell people to give the cigarettes up. The man tried everything and he could not give them up. It would not have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Department of Health (3 Nov 2021)

Seán Crowe: Did Deputy Durkan want to come in again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Department of Health (3 Nov 2021)

Seán Crowe: To go back to the Bill and some of the submissions we received from the various groups, including the tobacco and e-cigarette industry, many of the submissions cited Public Health England which has said vaping products are 95% less harmful and offer an alternative to smoking. Is there contrary evidence to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Department of Health (3 Nov 2021)

Seán Crowe: In the context of the e-cigarettes legislation, we have some idea of the additives that go into tobacco cigarettes but we do not know the impact of the additives in e-cigarettes. Is this what Ms Gordon is saying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Department of Health (3 Nov 2021)

Seán Crowe: We were referring to regulation and the difficulty of banning a particular product. I cite the example of the head shops and some of the drugs that were coming in. The shops then changed the names or changed one of the elements of a product and so on. This presented difficulties for legislators in trying to keep up with that, which was almost impossible. Are we into a similar situation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Department of Health (3 Nov 2021)

Seán Crowe: While I acknowledge that it is not covered in the proposed legislation, are there examples of other jurisdictions that have banned certain e-cigarette flavours that might be attractive to children or young people? Members of the Oireachtas might wish examine such examples in order to go down that route.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Department of Health (3 Nov 2021)

Seán Crowe: I was talking to someone who said he used to import a certain type of e-cigarette from the US, but now that An Post does not allow liquids in the post, he was going to try to give it up because he could not get the product he wanted. Is that another avenue whereby, as in the case of other products, people use the post or the Internet to get these products into Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Department of Health (3 Nov 2021)

Seán Crowe: There is also the question of whether, if we start censoring images of cigarettes, we should move on to censoring violence and so on and where we will stop. That is the balance we need to strike as a society. The meeting has been really helpful. It would be useful if we could receive examples of other jurisdictions' approaches, for the benefit of the wider Oireachtas. I thank our...

Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Nov 2021)

Seán Crowe: The debt of gratitude we owe our front-line healthcare workers is immeasurable. The sacrifices made were immense and the cost has been great. These are people who went into work at a time of great danger, not knowing what they might be exposed to or bring home to their families. This was all done against the backdrop of understaffing and underinvestment by successive Governments, leading...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Seán Crowe: I welcome Deputy Ward, who is substituting for Deputy Cullinane, and Senator Ruane, who is also joining us this morning. There is one matter of housekeeping before calling on the witnesses. Are the draft minutes of our private meetings on 7 and 14 September agreed to? Agreed. I welcome the following representatives from the Health Service Executive, who will update the committee on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Seán Crowe: I thank Professor Ó Laoide. I will now take questions from members, beginning with an Seanadóir Conway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Seán Crowe: Apologies again to any guests who are cut off. We are supposed to be working within slots of ten minutes for questions and answers. People are not being rude but trying to get through their questions.