Dail news
Yesterday's Business
• Statements on Tobacco Regulations.
• Resumed second-stage debate on the Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill.
• Questions to the Minister for Finance, Mr McCreevy.
• Motions on the Adjournment.
Voices in the House
The real beneficiaries of these measures will be the future generation who will live, work and socialise in a tobacco-free environment.
- The Minister for Health, Mr Martin
The smoking ban received almost as much coverage as the assassination of President Kennedy.
- Ms Olivia Mitchell, Fine Gael health spokeswoman
It is extremely important when a significant change is being introduced and implemented that it is done in a cast-iron way without any flaws.
- Ms Liz McManus, Labour health spokeswoman
There is an element of the nanny state and the health police coming into this debate and sometimes I believe ministers and their advisers are losing the run of themselves.
--Mr Finian McGrath, Independent
What happened the Marlboro man? He is dead. Do you know what the Marlboro man died of?
- Ms Cecilia Keaveney, Fianna Fáil