Did they vote, to ban alcohol consumption in the work place i.e. The Dail Bar!

Smoking is already banned on the grounds of many hospitals here, patients have to stand outside on the street… Those in Leinster House should be happy to do what is enforced upon others…

After a few months only members of the dail will be able to afford to smoke anyway?!?!?

Do they have a cigarette allowance ? They seem to have an allowance for everything else. Oh no they might give them selves one now.

I think they should concentrate on more important matters than this one at the moment.

It’s like a sub plot in Father Ted!

I have been asking Finian McGrath to show some respect for me and hundreds like me who dont want his junk mail in my letter box and now he is asking Crowne to show respect. What an idiot

They’re putting a sugar tax on fizzy drinks yet they smoke in heated comfort in the grounds of the Dail!!

Typical Mc Grath opposing something that is not in his own personal interest just like the others in Leinster House in regard to their own allowances, pensions, reductions of the numbers of plonkers sorry TDS etc.

I smell a decoy from a certain hot topic.

Look at the numbers around how TDs voted on legislation that killed somebody this week. Which in itself is a decoy from debating full reproductive rights.

Who gives a flying f*ck about smoking… How about some *individuals* in government. Instead of a bunch of whipped stooges. How about a sensible proportion of *women* in there, especially when something like reproductive rights is being voted on?

Really, government is just depressing most everywhere you find it. With a few exceptions here and there among the tons of inertia.

Finian believes that smokers deserve ‘respect’. Not even a sane smoker expects respect on the basis of their smoking.

Any smoker with half a brain hates being hooked on the rotten things, not knowing the day nor the hour that one further drag finally results in the cells in their lungs starting to misbehave and the seeds of a tumour are started.

Go visit someone with lung cancer in hospital Finian before you champion your next cause.

Are they seriously voting on this with all that’s happening and matters that really need to be discussed?? Says it all really.

John Criwn must be totally fed up trying to help people with terminal illness and yet their family go out for a smoke during their visits.
He may be expecting a lot for our obese, wife cheating , brown envelope takers, corrupt, immoral, lying, bullying politicians to lead by example.

Common sense decision by government for once. Banning people from smoking outdoors is just silly

Like the Irish government doesn’t have bigger fish to fry… for god’s sake. We all know the health risks involved in smoking, if people wish to continue outdoors it’s really not an important enough issue to warrant diverting the attention of Leinster House for any extended period of time.

Legislate for the X case, come up with some viable economic solutions, then, maybe, we’ll see about letting you worry about where to put the bloody smokers.

This is unreal, surely members of dail should be giving better example, especially a committe representing Health& Children, no wonder people are losing faith with the political system

Ciara
John Crown is a highly educated man but he’s also a bully. His demeanor at all times is for people to do as he says. Smoking at the moment is a perfectly legal activity and denying anyone the ability to light up in Gods free air is not appropriate in a Democracy whether the participant is a TD or a Doctor.
Should the Committee have passed this proposal what do you think would be next Ciara. Perhaps they would have followed up with consuming alcohol in our homes due to the negative influence on children or perhaps the wearing of pajamas in public because it gives foreign industrialists the idea that we lounge around all day.
John and Ciara…….build a bridge!

Fair play John crown! Perhaps the smokers (and surprisingly non-smokers) of dail eireann should respect the opinion of a well educated man and expert in his field. The government should lead by example. Prevention is better than cure. Smoking kills.

good excuse to hammer the smokers in the budget again,won’t stop smokers though,just means something else gets cut out of the family budget

One rule for them, another for everyone else.

I have to laugh at the ‘lead by example’ comment,the only place to smoke indoors in europe is in the European parliament !can you imagine that hypocrisy!?so I don’t light up in a stadium ,but nearly everywhere else is fair game as I’m a grown adult and don’t blow smoke in people’s faces or anywhere near them.it gets really annoying lately with more and more restrictions,just ban them for anyone not yet 18 ,give all smokers an i.d. card and let’s get rid of them,stuff like these proposals are pure diversion tactics.

A classic case of do as we say and not as we do!

“in practice, people smoke everywhere”, he said….well, take a photo and tell the HSE….
and Finian McGrath is pleasantly surprised at the “common sense” shown……me too Finian ,its rare to get that from ye lot.

This is unreal, surely members of the dail should be leading by example, especially a committee representing Health & Children. No wonder people are losing connection with the system

Hilarious, give us another knee slapper there Senator Crown

well they have to smoke their dope.Cant make important laws without been high as a kite

We should all support this decision. Do you want tabbing TDs cluttering up the streets of Dublin?

Look on the bright side………..30 of them smoke apparently, that’s 30 useless TDs who will die much sooner. As they are mostly 40 to 50+ years of age their chance of dying is now very high. Probably the most stupid 30 TDs as well.

I’d love to see Finian McGrath in this situation say
“Cigarettes are a viral menace; I love my smoke same as any other unfortunate smoker, but you know what, they are killing people, smoking costs the State millions in healthcare and we’re just fools addicted to a filthy stupid habit that enriches the cigarette companies. I’m going to show some mettle here and quit smoking. It’s going to be tough, but I might change a few mindsets”

Instead, he’s a lazy easy-option gimp. Sloping around the Leinster House car park, trying to curry cross-party favour with the other 29 nicotine addicts.

Inspirational stuff from our elected representatives.

I hope next time he’s slinking outside for a fag, he realises what a fool he is being as a role model to the electorate who are paying his salary and paying for the premium healthcare requirements of smokers.

I hope the next cancer victim in an Irish hospital doesn’t have their corridor trolley delayed by a smoker who chose to have cancer.

Slow news day ?