Results 1-20 of 33 for smoking speaker:Iris Robinson

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Loss of Nursing Posts (20 Apr 2009)

Iris Robinson: ...targets has been to punish the community by enforcing stringent cuts on front line services and attempting to palm the blame off on other people. Recent events have shown that Mr McGimpsey’s smoke and mirrors routine of trying to claim credit for all that is good about his Department’s performance, while trying to blame everyone else for controversial or unpopular decisions,...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Draft Children and Young Persons  (Sale of Tobacco etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (30 Jun 2008)

Iris Robinson: ...for Health, Social Services and Public Safety is grateful to officials from the Department who briefed Members at a meeting on 17 April 2008 on the proposals. The Committee fully recognises that smoking is the greatest preventable cause of death and illness, and welcomes any measures that will help to discourage young people from starting to smoke in the first instance. The Chief Medical...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Final Stage (5 Feb 2008)

Iris Robinson: ...; general practitioners, opticians, pharmacists and dentists; the second dealt with proposals to set out a legislative base for a new contract for dentists; and the third was the proposal to permit smoking by those taking part in performances. I am pleased that the proposal for a smoking exemption was dropped at Consideration Stage; and, as the Minister said, the Committee can justifiably...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Programme for Government  and Investment Strategy (28 Jan 2008)

Iris Robinson: ...leisure and exercise — one example of the Executive’s providing joined-up Government. There are targets for reducing the proportion of adults, and, particularly, manual workers, who smoke. By 2010, there is to be a 5% reduction in the proportion of adults who binge drink, and 10% reduction in the proportion of young people who drink and who report getting drunk. There are also...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Committee Business: Smoke Alarms in Homes (21 Jan 2008)

Iris Robinson: I beg to move That this Assembly recognises the positive work of voluntary and statutory organisations in installing smoke alarms in homes; expresses concern that many dwellings in both the private- and social-housing sectors still do not have adequate working smoke alarms; and calls on the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, the Department for Social Development and the...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Consideration Stage (15 Jan 2008)

Iris Robinson: ...concluded that it was content to support all the provisions of the Bill, apart from clause 15, which it agreed to oppose. Clause 15, if enacted, would provide power to exempt performers from the smoking ban. As the Minister has indicated, the proposed exemption had been inserted into article 17 of the original draft Order in Council by the then direct rule Minister. The Order in Council...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Committee Business: Draft Programme for Government and  draft Investment Strategy (26 Nov 2007)

Iris Robinson: ...by 10%, 5% fewer young adults taking illegal drugs, and a 30% reduction in the number of young girls under 17 years of age who give birth. Efforts to reduce obesity, and the number of adults who smoke, are also sensible. I support enhanced co-ordination across different Departments to improve well-being. The public health of the people of Northern Ireland is not a matter only for the...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Smoking Age Increase in Northern Ireland (20 Nov 2007)

Iris Robinson: ...to discuss the matter when the Minister receives his findings and brings them before it. I congratulate my colleague for proposing this important motion. No one any longer disputes the fact that smoking has deadly consequences. Now that there is a ban on smoking in public places in Northern Ireland, inevitably, the next step we should take is to limit the number of deaths caused by tobacco...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Committee Business: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill:  Extension of Committee Stage (1 Oct 2007)

Iris Robinson: ...services: general practitioners; opticians; pharmacists; and dentists. Secondly, it sets out a legislative base for a new contract for dental practitioner services. Thirdly, the Bill amends the Smoking (Northern Ireland) Order 2006, and makes provision to permit smoking by performers taking part in performances if artistic integrity so requires. Prior to the summer recess, the Committee...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Second Stage (19 Jun 2007)

Iris Robinson: ...Health Bill if its provisions will help in even a small way. I welcome the decision by the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to drop the clause that exempts performers from the smoking ban. The Committee had not yet taken a position on that exemption, but I had intended to highlight the strong opposition that has already been voiced by some Committee Members during an...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)

Iris Robinson: I want to underpin what the right hon. Gentleman is saying about the economy suffering. Is he aware that one year after New York's smoke-free air act was introduced in 2003, tax receipts for restaurants and bars had risen by 8.7 per cent.? Over the same period, jobs in bars and restaurants increased by more than 10,000.

Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)

Iris Robinson: I thank the hon. Gentleman. In the Irish Republic, one person in three used to smoke, but that has fallen to fewer than one in four. That significant change shows that the ban has been a deterrent. If a ban is good enough for the Irish Republic and for Northern Ireland, I do not see why we should differentiate on the mainland.

Orders of the Day — Health Bill (29 Nov 2005)

Iris Robinson: I make no apology for the fact that I intend to speak principally about the smoking ban. It would be remiss of me, however, to let pass without comment the views of the hon. Member for Sunderland, North (Bill Etherington), who spoke about those who shout the loudest winning and about the importance of carrying minorities with the majority. I wish that the same could be said when we speak...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill (29 Nov 2005)

Iris Robinson: I am aware of that and I withdraw the point about Wales. I was about to say that New Zealand became a smoke-free zone on 10 December 2004. Dr. Tricia Briscoe, chair of the New Zealand Medical Association, commented that that country's "experience shows that introducing smoke-free legislation makes people more aware about the health impacts of second-hand smoke. And the legislation is...

Essential Drugs (Northern Ireland) (24 Nov 2005)

Iris Robinson: Although my point is not about drug availability, have the Government made an assessment of the savings that will accrue through our introduction of the no-smoking ban in public places in Northern Ireland? That will have a major effect on all sorts of illnesses that derive from smoking.

Health Service (Northern Ireland) (5 Apr 2005)

Mrs Iris Robinson: ...be encouraged to adopt greater personal responsibility for healthy living, particularly in relation to diet and exercise. There still needs to be greater awareness of the danger and effects of binge drinking, smoking and illicit drug use. I strongly support a comprehensive ban on smoking in public places, which should be introduced with immediate effect. Another issue that concerns the...

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Smoking (12 Jan 2005)

Mrs Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps he is taking to tackle the level of smoking among young females in the Province.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Smoking (21 Dec 2004)

Mrs Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what estimate his Department has made of the number of patients who commence smoking while in psychiatric hospitals.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Passive Smoking (9 Dec 2004)

Mrs Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he expects the Code of Practice on Passive Smoking at Work to be published.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Passive Smoking (18 Nov 2004)

Mrs Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what information he collects regarding the number of people each year in the Province whose death is partly or wholly attributable to passive smoking.