Seanad debates

Monday, 3 July 2006

Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage.

 

8:00 pm

Mary Henry (Independent)

That is fine, but they are put on in accordance with the law. It is fine to say that children have good fun with fireworks, but I do not want to incur the wrath of my colleagues in the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital. Every Hallowe'en children lose bits of eyes, part of their sight and fingers because they hold the fireworks in their fingers. It is all very amusing until something like this happens. I saw terrible burns a few years ago when a child let a firework fall down the Wellington boot of another child. They are not suitable things for children to play with. The plastic surgery journals, and the eye journals——

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