Respect Vapers

Lobbying Organisation Respect Vapers

Date published 05 Oct, 2021

Relevant Matter Legislation

Public Policy Area Health

Period 1 May, 2021 to 31 Aug, 2021

Specific Details Legislation due on vaping (e-cigarettes)

Intended results To provide public representatives with facts relating to vaping and its benenfit to those quitting cigarettes

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Joe Dunne

Did any Designated Public Official(DPO) or former Designated Public Official(DPO) carry out lobbying activities on your behalf in relation to this return? You must include yourself, and answer Yes, if you are a current DPO or a DPO at any time in the past. (What is a Designated Public Official?) No

Did you manage or direct a grassroots campaign? No

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? No

Mass communications

Email All Oireachtas Members Inform Oireachtas members of Respect Vapers No to Smoking campaign Fri, 18 Jun, 18:01 Circulate the link to the ‘THE EU NICOTINE USERS SURVEY 2020’ published by European Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (ETHRA)

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Email (2-5)

1. Make submission to Health committee in advance of pre-legislative committee meeting on tobacco products and vaping. 2. Provide Dept officials with information relevant to the EU Beating Cancer Bill. This was subsequently passed to Minister Frank Feighan. 3. Joe Dunne met with Eimear Higgins TD to discuss vaping research 4.Request meeting with Thomas Gould TD 5. Liaise with Ged Nash TD on vaping research 6. Provide Lisa Chambers with research on vaping among young people 7. Seek meeting with Brid Smith TD to discuss vaping 8. Provide members of the Health Committee with accurate data on vaping to correct inaccuracies made by Irish Heart Foundation personnel at the committee meeting. 9. Briefing note on vaping sent to MEP Deirdre Clune in relation to EU Beating Cancer Bill

Social Media (2-5)

two social media messages about vaping were directed at the Minister for Health

Designated public officials lobbied

The following DPOs were lobbied during this return period on this specific Subject Matter Area. These DPOs were involved in at least one of the Lobbying Activities listed above, but not necessarily all of them. As returns are specific to a Subject Matter Area the above Lobbying Activities may be associated with multiple returns.

Deirdre Clune MEP (European Parliament)

Cathal Crowe TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Seán Crowe TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

David Cullinane TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Bernard Durkan TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Neasa Hourigan TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Gino Kenny TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

John Lahart 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 Minister of State (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)

Bríd Smith TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Emer Higgins TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Thomas Gould TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Stephen Donnelly Minister (Department of Health)

Ged Nash TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Lisa Chambers Senator (Seanad)

Frank Feighan Minister of State (Department of Health)