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Anniversary of the Introduction of the Smoking Ban: Statements (11 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: ...Comhairle and the Members here today for their kind comments regarding my new role as Minister of State. I look forward to working with all Deputies. As Deputy Shortall knows, I have served a long apprenticeship in the health committee. I think I am one month short of 13 years on the health committee, so I have served a long apprenticeship. I hope it can be of benefit to me in my new...

Anniversary of the Introduction of the Smoking Ban: Statements (11 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ...It is certainly a far cry from the type of pioneering public health policy we are honouring today. Instead of action, all we have got is not one but two rounds of public consultation. This comes after a very long process, with which the Minister of State is familiar, that we went through at the Joint Committee on Health. We went through extensive pre-legislative scrutiny and the...

Anniversary of the Introduction of the Smoking Ban: Statements (11 Apr 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...a minority of the Irish people take up a large amount of bandwidth in our public conversation. There is a lesson there for us. While there might not be an immediate political benefit, there is certainly a long-term political benefit to making the right decisions and representing large numbers of Irish people who may have a position on this but are not actively engaged in any particular...

Anniversary of the Introduction of the Smoking Ban: Statements (11 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...harm reduction means. We have all seen those people who were able to wean themselves off cigarettes, who had tried many times before and failed. This was the means by which they did it. That was long before we saw the bubblegum-flavoured vapes and so on. We know that we have to go much further. When talking about kids, including many young kids, it is incredibly worrying. It is not...

Anniversary of the Introduction of the Smoking Ban: Statements (11 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...issues I want to discuss is the Gambling Regulation Bill. That should have been discussed this week. I had expected to be here today discussing that vital Bill, which deals with an issue that has featured for nearly as long as the smoking ban has been in place, namely 20 years. This is important legislation that should have been discussed but that is not being discussed. It would...

Anniversary of the Introduction of the Smoking Ban: Statements (11 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: ..., a 2019 analysis found the workplace smoking ban had caused decreases in cancer incidence and mortality in Ireland and was associated with an estimated 32 fewer lung cancer incident cases per year and 113 fewer lung cancer deaths per year. Along with these improvements in health outcomes, we know the ban impacted on smoking rates. A 2020 analysis found its introduction reduced girls'...