Brendan Ryan (Labour)

I had enough fun with Senator Mansergh for one day.

I genuinely believe this raises an issue about how Departments do their business. They are not good at parallel thinking and planning. Will the Minister of State seriously consider this matter?

I am disappointed at how limited our efforts on prevention are. I am not sure what current statistics are on young people smoking. From anecdotally observing the large number of young people at my place of work, I believe the number standing outside the doors smoking is decreasing. Smoking was prohibited in most of the buildings for years and it is absolutely prohibited everywhere now.

However, if one drives through Cork as I often do on a Thursday night at 11 p.m. or midnight, which is the student night out, the number of young women in particular outside student bars in freezing weather during February in clothes more appropriate to the southern Mediterranean than cold Cork——