Emer Currie (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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1366. To ask the Minister for Health to outline all work carried out to date in the drafting of the proposed Public Health (Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill; to outline a clear timeline for its legislative progress and enactment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49139/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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Proposals to further regulate nicotine inhaling products and prohibit single-use vapes were approved by Cabinet in 2024. Parliamentary and Legal Counsel were subsequently assigned to the legislation from the Office of the Attorney General.

The drafting process involves engagement between officials in my Department and the Office of the Attorney General, and consultation with the National Environmental Health Service, other enforcement authorities such as the CCPC and other Departments and aegis bodies to translate the policy outlined in the General Scheme into legally sound and workable legislation. This includes, but is not limited to, examining:

• Rights to be conferred/duties to be imposed
• Powers of the Minister or other body
• Any administrative machinery
• Enforcement (including offences and penalties)
• Technical definitions
• Use of secondary legislation
• Transitional and consequential provisions