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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: 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.

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 think the point being made by the Independent Living Movement Ireland was there was a difficulty there in relation to getting up onto the mammogram machine. The representatives were talking about access to a hoist or whatever. Maybe that is something the HSE can look at.

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: Okay. Maybe it is something up we can follow up with the officials on behalf of the group.

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 Flanagan. Deputy Lahart is next.

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: Do any of the members have a question for Mr. O'Sullivan? I call Deputy Lahart.

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: Okay. Would Mr. O'Sullivan like to expand on the HRT aspect while he is with us? I refer to the danger faced by so many women who find it essential for a normal life to take HRT, and the existence of a link with cancer in that regard. Will Mr. O'Sullivan expand on that point?