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BRITISH MEMBERS OF parliament today voted overwhelmingly in support of a ban on smoking in cars carrying children.
Lawmakers in the House of Commons, the lower house of parliament, voted in favour of a ban by 376 to 107.
It is now up to Prime Minister David Cameron’s government to decide whether to actually bring a ban into effect.
Opponents of the measure had argued that legislation on the issue was not needed, and infringed people’s freedoms.
Australia, Canada, South Africa and the United States already ban smoking in cars in which children are passengers.
Lawmakers were voting on an amendment to a bill, brought by the opposition Labour party, which gives the government the power to make it a criminal offence for drivers to fail to prevent smoking in their cars, although it does not mean the government necessarily has to.
The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government gave lawmakers a free vote, meaning that they could decide on principle instead of being forced to toe the party line.
Cameron himself missed the vote because he was touring flood-hit areas in southwest England, but his spokesman said the prime minister believed “the time had come” for a ban.
A 2012 study carried out in Britain found that smoking in cars raises levels of dangerous fine-particle pollutants to many times the limit recommended by the world’s health agency.
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Can I have my money back now
It’s like’…..burning your furniture – to keep warm!
Why are PwC saying this instead of IBRC and NAMA?
As property prices start to rise nama , ibrc start to dump property
Can someone explain why?
Dumping loans philip, not property. They’re Dumping the loans as they’re non-performing and want to get them off the balance sheet.
If they had the patience, they’d put arrangements in place to allow the properties to return to positive equity and then seek a sale, this recouping more of the tax payers money.
Unfortunately, they’ll sell the loans for a discount and allow the new purchasers to do this and net a tidy profit.
The article outlines that IBRC (IBROKE would probably be a better name) will offload € 15 billion in loans.
Yet the linked article tells us that IBROKE have already offloaded 90% of its loanbook, € 19.8 billion out of € 21.7 billion leaving just € 1.9 billion on hand.
This can only mean, if the previous article is correct, that it is NAMA that is offloading the majority of the loans.
Why the subterfuge?
Why make people think that this is some kind of joint enterprise when it is NAMA that is leading the charge?
Have the shiny suit brigade from the canal something to hide?
Given their obsession with secrecy it would not surprise me if they have, perhaps selling the loans to some preferred customer with an inside track at a serious discount.
The way things go it will all be wrapped up before we know anything, plus ça change.
Who in their right mind would buy this junk?
It might only be worth 30% of face value but if you buy it for 20% it’s a good deal. For the buyer anyway.
@ Irish Revolution
The Banks?
Hedge funds bought it. They will now sell off all the ghost estates etc at a lower price so people that have houses for sale at the min will eventually have to sell for half or take them off the market.
Fab house here in drogheda asking price €325. Hilarious. You could now nearly get a house for that on raglan road or ailsbury road!! So that house is realistically worth less than €150 really.
People and notions ha
What about Bank of Scotland selling on my mortgage & others in their Irish portfolio to a company called Tanager Ltd.
I’m in a tizzy all day because I don’t know what it means for us.
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