Maria Byrne (Fine Gael)

I welcome that a Bill is coming to address vapes, including some of the flavours, albeit not all of them, as well as single-use vapes. This is very good news but I still do not understand something. We took a brave move when we brought in the smoking ban and made smokers go out to the smoking area, so why can we not put vapers into the smoking area as well? I believe that people are concerned about this. It is not just youth who are vaping, but all ages. Numbers are going up in terms of the sale of vapes, with more and more people vaping. It is not a fix to do with anti-smoking or stopping smoking, and I believe that people are now vaping more regularly. This legislation to ban it completely indoors has to come sooner rather than later.