Results 1-14 of 14 for smoking speaker:Peter Robinson

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Supply Resolution for the 2007-08 Main Estimates (11 Jun 2007)

Peter Robinson: ...from our engagement with the Chancellor is that there is a need to introduce a range of fiscal measures that can bring about a step change in economic activity and growth. I agree with Roy Beggs that smoke and mirrors will not deliver real growth. However, I point out to him that, apart from being given a minimum amount in the comprehensive spending review, Northern Ireland has been...

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Prisons (18 Jul 2006)

Peter Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the cost was of providing assistance to prisoners in Northern Ireland to cease smoking in each of the last three years.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Smoking (1 Dec 2005)

Peter Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State forNorthern Ireland what assessment has been made by his Department of the medical effects of smoking by pregnant women on the health of an unborn child.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Smoking-related Deaths (7 Nov 2005)

Peter Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many smoking-related deaths there were in Northern Ireland in the last four years; and how many people he estimates smoked regularly in each age group in each of the last four years.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Smoking (18 Jul 2005)

Peter Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the prevalence of smoking has been among teenagers in Northern Ireland over the past two decades, broken down by gender.

Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]: New Clause 1 — Independent Members: Declaration Against Terrorism (26 Mar 2003)

Mr Peter Robinson: ...for North Antrim (Rev. Ian Paisley) mentioned that the Government would undoubtedly be embarrassed by the timing of the Bill, because it comes at a time when the Provisional IRA has once again been smoked out. The significant arms find on the Ormeau road shows that it had weapons that were neither hidden deep in its bunkers nor ready to be decommissioned; these were new weapons that it had...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Events on 4 October 2002 (8 Oct 2002)

Mr Peter Robinson: ...to lecture anybody in this House, because the IRA has gone back to what he thinks that it does best. The Ulster Unionist Party must now face up to the reality that no spin, briefings, revisionism, smoke or mirrors will change the fact that its members were taken for fools. They trusted the IRA, and the IRA let them down. John Taylor had the gut feeling that the IRA was genuine, but it...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Lack of Investment in the A20  Newtownards to Portaferry Road (13 May 2002)

Mr Peter Robinson: ...for the infrastructure. If the two proposals together require major improvements, then the second part of their development must carry that infrastructural cost. Although they may get away in the smoke in the first instance, when they come back for the full scheme they will be caught. My Department’s Roads Service will always give advice to the Department of the Environment’s...

Public Bill Committee: Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Bill: Clause 3 - Absent votes and declarations of identity (16 Oct 2001)

Mr Peter Robinson: ...a photocopy—which would be coded in such a way that if there were something unusual that required further inquiry the electoral office could immediately source and trace it. However, a lot of smoke has been put up during the debate that has confused the issue a little for me. Nevertheless, it is an area that we should undoubtedly deal with because of the steps mentioned earlier in...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Procedural Consequences of Devolution (9 Nov 1998)

Mr Peter Robinson: ...appears to be some ineptitude on the part of those representing Sinn Fein on the Committee. They agreed to something that their betters outside the Committee do not agree to, and they are raising smoke to hide their embarrassment. They agreed the report, and it will be interesting to see if they have the support of other Sinn Fein Members when it comes to the vote, or whether they...

Northern Ireland (Elections) Bill: Disqualification (22 Apr 1998)

Mr Peter Robinson: ...tied the behaviour of the organisation itself and those with whom it associated, but on this occasion the parties and their organisations are not included; only the individual is tied. That is the smoking-gun scenario: a Minister must be caught with a smoking gun in his hand to be put out of the Government or out of the assembly. The condition applies not to the party but only to the...

Northern Ireland (Elections) Bill: Disqualification (22 Apr 1998)

Mr Peter Robinson: ...their weapons and their Ministers can still be in government. There is even no requirement that the organisation itself should stop its violence. It is the individual who has to be caught with the smoking gun in his hand before that person can be removed from government. If there was any whiff of democracy in this system, it would not allow those who are associated with terrorists to be...

Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, Etc) Bill: The Negotiations (22 Apr 1996)

Mr Peter Robinson: ...will accept amendment No. 2. On the other hand, their acceptance of the previous amendment could well have been just a blip and the bulldozer is about to proceed, leaving behind it the belching smoke to put as much confusion over the scene as possible. That is the issue at stake. The amendment attempts to provide more precise language for the fudge in the Government's Command Paper, and...

Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, etc) Bill (18 Apr 1996)

Mr Peter Robinson: ...might say. If that lesson has not been learnt by now, it never will be. We saw the terrible tragedy of those who believed that they could defy the wishes of the people. They came to agreements in smoke-filled rooms—perhaps their arms were twisted, perhaps promises were made—but they reached agreements for which they could not secure support in their communities. The forum is...