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Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Economy: Ad Hoc Committee (12 May 2009)

Alasdair McDonnell: ...devoid those parties are of creative or productive ideas and of how content they are to dawdle along, making no changes and no difference. The DUP’s recent proposals are nothing more than a smoke-and-mirrors exercise. A set of old ideas has been dressed up in new clothes, and a few efficiency savings have been added around the edges. There is talk about reducing the number of...

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

Alasdair McDonnell: ...' time. I hope that the right hon. Member for North-West Hampshire (Sir George Young) will allow my vote tonight in favour of a stronger ban to cancel out the irresponsible vote of someone else. Smoking is a killer. Smoking maims people. Smoking cripples people. There is a whole spectrum of damage that smoking cigarettes—smoking tobacco—does to people. It is the single...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Legislative Programme (31 Jan 2000)

Dr Alasdair McDonnell: .... I have no doubt that it is vital to regulate the social work profession and other social care workers. Some 30% to 35% of our health expenditure is on illnesses that are the direct result of smoking. Can we anticipate the early presentation of a Bill that will make smoking more difficult and, perhaps, raise some taxes that could go towards the Health Service? Can we anticipate raising...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Hospital Service (14 Dec 1998)

Dr Alasdair McDonnell: ...a more effective preventative strategy existed, there would be fewer people in hospital. The Health Service is impotent, as far as I can see, in the whole campaign on health promotion. We are all aware of the lethal impact of cigarette smoking on health and its well-proven links with cancer and heart disease. We should be aware of the massive cost to the economy generally and to the Health...