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Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)

Catherine Noone: I call for a debate on the introduction of plain cigarette packaging, especially now that the tobacco lobby is threatening legal action on the matter. It shows an astonishing nerve and I can only hope that the Government sticks to its guns and brings in this legislation. I listened to the discussion about this matter on the radio this morning.If the tobacco industry does not believe plain...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)

Catherine Noone: As we know, plain packaging was introduced in Australia in December 2012, and the latest Australian Government statistics show that the proportion of Australians smoking is at its lowest since records began. Smoking rates are falling there at their fastest in 20 years. The daily smoking rate has declined from 15.1% in 2010 to 12.8% in 2013. The statistics, which I will not go into in...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)

Catherine Noone: The Senator should know about it.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)

Catherine Noone: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)

Catherine Noone: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)

Catherine Noone: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)

Catherine Noone: I join other Senators, particularly Senator Mooney, regarding the plain packaging issue. There is no more appropriate day than Ash Wednesday on which to speak of the introduction of plain packaging. I agree with Senator Burke's point about IBEC and the cost added by smoking-related illnesses to the €260 million per week that we spend on health care. It beggars belief and is...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)

Catherine Noone: I hope that we challenge the court actions head on and without fear.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)

Catherine Noone: Yes. It is unsavoury and inappropriate, to say the least. On a more minor issue, I was glad to read this morning that on-street chuggers - charity muggers, those people who collect for charities by using inventive measures, to put it mildly, to ask people on the street for direct debits - will be subject to new regulations under which they will be required to hold permits. Permits are...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2015)

Catherine Noone: I would like to raise a law and order issue, which was raised by Senator Craughwell last week. I agree with him based on what I heard over the past number of weeks, especially regarding the Navan Road area. In particular areas, where older people live, they are being targeted by both young criminals and gangs. A number of cases have been highlighted in the media, including a terrible case...

Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (24 Feb 2015)

Catherine Noone: I welcome the Minister to the House. As a woman I wholeheartedly welcome this Bill which will take steps towards reparation for the thousands of women who were virtually imprisoned in the Magdalen laundries from the late 1800's to late in the last century. According to the McAleese report, 10,012 women in Ireland were confined to these laundries over eight decades, not including those in...

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Catherine Noone: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Catherine Noone: I welcome the Minister. The Government, as I do, fully acknowledges the difficulties with overcrowding in accident and emergency departments and the problem this causes for patients and families and staff who are doing their utmost to provide safe, quality care in extremely challenging circumstances. It is my understanding optimum patient care and patient safety at all times remains a...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Noone: I was truly shocked by figures released yesterday by Temple Street Children's Hospital showing more than 100 children under the age of 17 were treated for alcohol poisoning since 2012. The statistics revealed that 22 children aged under 16 presented with alcohol poisoning last year alone; five in the past three years were as young as 12 and one was 11. More than 70 of the overall figure of...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Catherine Noone: Take it outside.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Catherine Noone: I was deeply disappointed this week to discover that the EU has dithered and delayed on the abolition of roaming charges within the European Union. For the past year and a half people across Europe have been led up the garden path when it comes to roaming and have been told that the abolition of EU roaming charges was imminent, had passed through the Parliament and was about to be enacted....

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)

Catherine Noone: I was delighted to hear about the Sober St. Patrick's Day initiative, which will see the Gresham Hotel come alive with ceoil agus craic on 17 March in an alcohol-free setting. Many people, especially younger people, feel huge pressure to binge drink on this holiday, or perhaps it has just become the done thing. Our national day has been hijacked to a large extent by alcohol consumption,...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Mar 2015)

Catherine Noone: I agree with Senator Norris. I could not agree more that it is inappropriate for Diageo to be involved in a campaign entitled "Stop Out-of-Control Drinking" and it is somewhat cynical, to say the least. His suggestion is a sensible one and would bring some credence and credibility to the campaign. Perhaps he would make his suggestion directly to Diageo because it is positive and would give...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Catherine Noone: How many meetings has Sinn Féin held?

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Catherine Noone: I wholeheartedly support Senator Mary Ann O'Brien's call to ban vending machines. I have highlighted the matter on numerous occasions in the past. I find it hard to believe, in a country in which one in four children are either overweight or obese, that the status quois that we have vending machines laden with sweets in schools. They have the potential to create bad habits for children at...