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2025-01-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Ossian Smyth (Minister of State), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications
Intent: Meeting with Minister Smyth.
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Letter to Minister of State |
| — | Ossian Smyth TD |
| — | concerning government proposals around adult vaping with a request for a meeting with Minister Smyth. |
2024-09-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Jack Chambers (Minister), Department of Finance
Intent: Proportionate taxation of vaping products that can be implemented effectively without damaging vaping as an effective smoking method, or damaging legitimate Irish business or incentivise a black market in vaping products.
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Written representations to the Minister for Finance |
| — | Jack Chambers TD concerning proposals to introduce a new tax on vaping products. |
2024-09-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Ossian Smyth (Minister of State), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications
Intent: Balanced and proportionate regulation of vaping that will not incentivize a black market in the sale of vaping devices, their continuing availability to adults as effective smoking cessation tools, and the continued availability of disposable vaping products and the early introduction of a deposit return scheme for disposable vapes.
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Written representations to Minister Ossian Smyth TD |
| — | Minister of State at the Dept of the Environment concerning proposals to ban the sale of disposable vaping devices. |
2024-09-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Bernard Durkan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Balanced and proportionate regulation of vaping which would avoid damaging vaping as an effective smoking cessation option.
Methods: Meeting, Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Representation on proposals for the further regulation of vaping and the sale of vaping products. |
2024-09-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Stephen Donnelly (Minister), Department of Health; Susan Mitchell (Special Adviser), Department of Health; Paraic Gallagher (Special Adviser), Department of Health
Intent: Balanced and proportionate regulation of the sale, marketing and use of vaping products and an opportunity to meet with Minister Donnelly on these matters.
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Written representations to the Minister of Health |
| — | Stephen Donnelly TD concerning proposals to further regulate e-cigarettes and vaping products |
| — | requests for the early publication of the results of a public consultation on these matters and a request for a meeting. |
2024-05-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Stephen Donnelly (Minister), Department of Health; Hildegarde Naughton (Minister of State), Department of Health; Susan Mitchell (Special Adviser), Department of Health; Paul Melia (Adviser to Minister), Department of Health
Intent: Understanding of the submissions of Hale Vaping to the public consultation from the Dept. of Health on the further regulation of tobacco and nicotine inhaling products which concluded on 5 January 2024.
Methods: Submission, Letter, Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Sharing of the submission by Hale Vaping to the public consultation on the further regulation of tobacco and nicotine inhaling products. |
2024-05-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Colm Burke (Minister of State), Department of Health
Intent: Meeting with new Minister of State at the Department of Health.
Methods: Email, Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Letter to Minister of State at the Department of Health seeking a meeting. |
2024-05-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Carol Nolan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Lahart (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; David Cullinane (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Healy-Rae (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Emer Higgins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Bernard Durkan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: To inform public representatives of a range of considerations concerning public policy relating to e-cigarettes and vaping.
Methods: Email, Phone call, Meeting, Submission, Informal communication
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Outreach to public representatives relating to e-cigarettes and vaping. |
2024-01-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Ossian Smyth (Minister of State), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications
Intent: Consideration of the market implications and impacts on recycling initiatives of future policy decisions relating to e-cigarettes.
Methods: Letter, Phone call, Email, Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Briefing of Minister of State at the Dept of Environment |
| — | Climate and Communications concerning environmental impacts of e-cigarettes |
| — | including a range of initiatives underway to address these. |
2024-01-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Stephen Donnelly (Minister), Department of Health; Hildegarde Naughton (Minister of State), Department of Transport; Gino Kenny (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Fitzmaurice (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Marc MacSharry (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; James Lawless (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Violet Anne Wynne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Carol Nolan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Lahart (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; David Cullinane (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Verona Murphy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Healy-Rae (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Matt Shanahan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Collins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Richard O'Donoghue (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Susan Mitchell (Special Adviser), Department of Health; Paul Melia (Adviser to Minister), Department of Health; Maurice Quinlivan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mick Barry (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Richard Bruton (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Francis Noel Duffy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joe Flaherty (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; James O'Connor (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Louise O'Reilly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; David Stanton (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Garret Ahearn (Senator), Seanad; Ollie Crowe (Senator), Seanad; Róisín Garvey (Senator), Seanad; Paul Gavan (Senator), Seanad; Marie Sherlock (Senator), Seanad; Tom Clonan (Senator), Seanad; Rónán Mullen (Senator), Seanad; Joan Collins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Richard Boyd Barrett (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Cathal Berry (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pádraig O'Sullivan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pat Casey (Senator), Seanad; Jackie Cahill (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Alan Dillon (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Micheál Carrigy (Senator), Seanad; Seán Crowe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Cathal Crowe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Neasa Hourigan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Róisín Shorthall (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Frances Black (Senator), Seanad; Lorraine Clifford-Lee (Senator), Seanad; Martin Conway (Senator), Seanad; Annie Hoey (Senator), Seanad; Seán Kyne (Senator), Seanad; Colm Brophy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Patrick Costello (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pa Daly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Alan Farrell (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Thomas Pringle (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Niamh Smyth (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mark Ward (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Barry Ward (Senator), Seanad; Robbie Gallagher (Senator), Seanad; Vincent P Martin (Senator), Seanad; Michael McDowell (Senator), Seanad; Lynn Ruane (Senator), Seanad
Intent: To inform public representatives of a range of considerations concerning public policy relating to e-cigarettes and vaping.
Methods: Email, Phone call, Meeting, Submission
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Outreach to public representatives relating to e-cigarettes and vaping. |