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

John Lahart: What is the status of vaping indoors?

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

John Lahart: That is something that ought to be considered as well as part of any legislation that is coming because I have noticed a creep in it, absent any hard information on what the vapes contain.

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

John Lahart: On the review piece, I am not sure whether there is flexibility to review some aspects of it earlier than other aspects. As the Minister said, some parts of the Bill can be enacted immediately while we will wait for other parts to be enacted. In regard to parts on banning vaping products for children, three years seems a long time. If the tobacco companies or other companies find some way...

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

John Lahart: The Chair will have to forgive me as I have to make a contribution to the debate on the budget in the House. I do not blame the Minister for responding the way he did. It indicated a degree of passion about the Bill he is trying to bring in and get passed. I share the regret it has delayed the banning of the sale of vaping products to children for at least eight months. It is not often we...

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

John Lahart: The implication is the same as the Minister's previous exhortation, which fell on deaf ears, that this will delay some measures if the amendment is passed. That is what I am saying. It will have to go to the European Union for consideration.

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

John Lahart: It becomes a little bit like asking, "How long is a piece of string?". One of the things that strikes me about tobacco, for example, is that it does not ever seem to be necessary for the tobacco industry or film industry to credit tobacco with the funding of movies. I have always been of the impression that this is the case, however. It is particularly insidious in some movies. One cannot...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update with regard to proposed works at a school (details supplied). [44542/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update with regard to the outstanding works that are necessary at a school (details supplied). [44543/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the request by a school (details supplied) for a new school building [44553/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update with regard to a new school announced last year (details supplied). [44555/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I thank our witnesses. I always try to put myself in the witnesses' chairs. I am sure they are not comfortable. Mr. Kelly is the assistant national director for child and youth mental health.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I wish Mr. Kelly the very best of luck. We do not have enormous expectations of him today but perhaps we will the next time he is before the committee. If he is the assistant national director, who is the national director?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: We have gone through some of the notes, the witness statements and the written evidence that was presented to us. The Chair and I represent an area in CHO 7. Perhaps for the benefit of people watching the meeting, the HSE is divided into numbered community health areas, and mine is No. 7. In broad brushstrokes, CHO 7 includes north Kildare and south Dublin. It is one of those areas that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: One of the criticisms is that there does not seem to be a lateral thinking approach. This is not a personal criticism; I am trying to be helpful. I am a Government Deputy. What can Government do to assist? Mr. Walsh is talking about it from a helicopter view and level, looking down on it, yet we talk to parents who have a 15- or 16-year-old with urgent and acute needs who have to wait....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: What is a CAMHS care hub?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: What personnel do they involve?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: Where is the setting located?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: Are those primary care centres?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: The Chair and I share the same constituency. We attended a meeting where many parents of young adults with disabilities and special needs were present. They talked about how those kids, adolescents and adults get lost in respect of their mental health needs. The disability piece is one element, but the parents spoke about how there are so few supports if they have a combined mental health...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I thank Ms Walsh, Mr. Wall, Mr. Curran and Mr. Ahern. It is clear they have come more agonisingly close to personally dealing with the ins and outs of this issue than most people have. They have seen the issue and considered it, from both sides, inside and outside. I will make a couple of initial points. I say to Ms Walsh that there is no Bill coming. This committee has been established...