Michael Finucane (Fine Gael)

I am appalled that Senators would laugh at this issue, when it is raised in a serious manner. A letter from an eminentsurgeon at St. James's Hospital was published in The Irish Times today and he spoke about the issue on a radio programme yesterday. He stated that three of the six people who came in with broken jaws over the weekend were assaulted while smoking outside public houses. This should not happen to people who co-operate with and abide by the law by going outside premises to smoke.