New legislation banning the sale of flavoured vapes and restrictions on eye-catching packaging have officially been signed into law, though full enforcement could take up to a year.<\/p>\n
President Catherine Connolly today signed the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) (Amendment) Bill 2026 into law after it passed all stages of the Oireachtas.<\/p>\n
Under the legislation, the sale of nicotine inhaling products with flavours such as menthol or fruity varieties will be banned.<\/p>\n
Colourful or eye-catching imagery on their packaging is also prohibited under the legislation.<\/p>\n
The laws also empower the Minister for Health to regulate flavour names.<\/p>\n
It also introduces restrictions on signage, display and advertising of nicotine inhaling products in shops and online.<\/p>\n
The legislation, first drafted by Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill last year, aims to regulate the characteristics of vapes in order to reduce their appeal to young people.<\/p>\n
While the Bill has been enacted, the measures do not take immediate effect, with Minister Carroll MacNeill to review timelines for implementation.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the Department of Health noted that the Act provides for a transition period of 12 months from the commencement of the Bill.<\/p>\n
“The measures in the Act do not take immediate effect.<\/p>\n
“The timelines for the measures will be considered by the Minister for Health when commencing the relevant sections of the Act.<\/p>\n
“However, Section 21 of the Act provides for a transition period of 12 months from commencement for the measures related to appearance, packaging and flavour names of nicotine inhaling products,” they said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New legislation banning the sale of flavoured vapes and restrictions on eye-catching packaging have officially been signed into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-667145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}