Results 1-5 of 5 for smoking speaker:Michael Connarty

[Ann Winterton in the Chair] — Palestinian Territories (Economic Aid) (27 Jan 2009)

Michael Connarty: ...hospital as saying: "We noticed burns different from anything we had ever dealt with before. After some hours the burns became wider and deeper, gave off an offensive odour and then they began to smoke." That is why aid is urgently needed for the medical services in Gaza. Weapons that should never have been used are being used. The descriptions of the continuing burning and deepening of...

Orders of the Day — Drugs Bill (18 Jan 2005)

Mr Michael Connarty: My hon. Friend will recall that we visited that coffee shop together and that the athlete whom he mentioned generally advised his clients not to smoke cannabis because he had made it up in other forms that could be chewed.

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords] (29 Apr 2002)

Mr Michael Connarty: ...the House of Commons is the place to legislate for United Kingdom bans, and that we must focus on Europe to gain the strength of the European Union behind any measure to change people's view of smoking? It is a waste of the Scottish Parliament's time to deal with a subject that is not devolved.

Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill (13 Jan 1998)

Mr Michael Connarty: ...a good thing, because it means that we will have to share power with others and work towards something that will be more useful to the public. We should not reduce the Parliament to deals done in smoke-filled rooms or in any other cabal between one major party and one minor or less-than-a-majority party. I hope that we will look at ways of involving as many people and as many parties as...

Orders of the Day — Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill: Repeals (26 Oct 1992)

Mr Michael Connarty: ...system of diligence. I regret the final form of the Bill. I compliment the civil servants who adeptly sieved the submissions from people who perhaps could not see the target for the Government's smoke. A Special Standing Committee would have been able to take evidence in the way in which it was meant to be submitted, rather than in the way in which Government procedures allowed it to be...