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The Daily PollTHE DUST IS beginning to settle on Budget 2023 and we’re all checking the impact it will have on our pockets.
The jury is out on what difference it will really make. Depending on where you stand, it’s either a giveaway Budget, one that will tackle the cost-of-living crisis, or one that will do little to change the big issues facing people in Ireland today.
You can catch up on everything you need to know about the Budget here.
This morning we’re asking: Do you think Budget 2023 was fair?
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Is not common sense that kiddies playgrounds should be a smoker free zone…..obviously not!
The Minister is so totally correct in this regard and I fully support him. Children should not be allowed to smoke in their playgrounds and should be encouraged to confine such activities to their homes. Well done Minister. I now know why we pay you such a high salary.
I would have done it for a quarter of the price !
I’m a smoker and normally I would be screaming civil liberties and smoke being dissipated in the air …but the minister has pinged it here I think …..
It helps me avoid the odd cigarette if I feel I will be upsetting anyone ….
I try not to smoke in front of my kids, but I remember when I was a kid I was totally anti-smoking and now ????
Ah the genius of the mind of a child – go an soleir ar fad !
I think he should be more worried about obesity………
Can’t he be worried about both?
Oh know someone I dont like made a good point…… call him fat
I totally agree too. We should also be getting rid of smokers outside the doors of shopping centres etc, it’s dreadful to have to walk out through clouds of smoke. Perhaps a crackdown on smoking in cars as well?
Listening to likes of you moan is dreadful too but we leave you to it. What difference does people smoking in their cars make to you? Sanctimonious fool trying to inflict your values on society – that’s an attitude that’s never worked out badly for Ireland in the past eh? How about worrying about yourself and leave others to do likewise, live and let live if you will.
Those that mean I can fart in your car with you in it ?
Smokers generally have 1 hand being used to hold the cigarette instead of being on the wheel. Now I know that people drinking/etc in car are doing same, but at least you can pop a cup down in cup holder, not same for cigarette.
Also, you don’t often see people throw their rubbish out the window when finished with their drink, whereas the amount of cigarettes being thrown out the window is close to 100% of cigarettes smoked in a car.
No one should be selfish enough to smoke around children anyway. Even if they are not breathing second hand smoke, it’s a filthy disgusting habit and it’s setting a bad example. Monkey see, monkey do…..
I’m really sick of this nanny state crap….however, if we go to the full extent let’s try these examples:
1. Ban under 18s from all fast food outlets
2. Every household turns off wi-fi after 6pm to stop kids becoming addicted to their smart phones / snap chat / Internet etc.
3. Everyone under 16 to observe curfew from 10.30 PM to 6.30 am
4.No hoodies allowed during hours of 6.30am – 10.30pm
Jayus …enough of this my brain hurts and breaking curfew.
And it will only get worse. Nanny state bullshit is getting out of control. We are not trusted to use our brains any more.
If you choose to smoke in a playground, then they are correct in thinking that you “cannot be trusted to use you brain” because you are proving that you are not using it.
Except the smoking issue is one where others have to put up with your smoking, it’s not something you’re doing just for yourself.
Also, the amount of litter caused by smokers is unreal, so the less chance of litter and smoke around playgrounds the better.
They should never have let Reilly bring the tobacco policy file with him when he left health. Now look what’s happened. Next thing he’ll ban bike sheds in schools in case children smoke behind them. I dispair, I really do.
You forget that some parents are so intellectually challenged that the only way to protect their own children is to make laws to prevent parents subjecting their own children to inhaled carcinogens. I’m sure you would not do such a thing but many do.
More bull-ology. So, our new non-smoking playgrounds are going to be policed by?
Well, the non-smoking pub thing worked and that’s largely self policed.
It should not be an incentive ,” is the playground non smoking ? No ? Well then you are not getting any funding ! ” . it should be banned from all playgrounds , full stop .
Is this irrelevant rubbish or has the minister spotted children with cigars and cigarettes on roundabouts and slides? Things are very tame in Galway. On the other hand, many of our underage citizens are not above swigging from a bottle of Buckfast in our local plonkgrounds.
Just a hunch there Phil, but I’m pretty sure he was talking about the adults supervising the kids
The man failed in his last position I don’t expect a different result in this new position.
Totally ridiculous.The paranoia about cigarettes smoked outdoors .
I wonder dose that also include those electronic chemical cigarettes….
They should ban hoodies. And if people who wear hoodies smoke near playgrounds they should get 2 fines and community service. If the person wearing a hoodie and smoking while driving beside a playground he should getv3 fines and community service. If the person with the hoodie and smoking while drinking a can of beer while in a car beside a playground — more Gardai needed.
Banning smoking in a car while in the presence of others would be more useful because the concentration of smoke in such a tiny space can do real damage. Banning smoking in public places is to set a positive example for people not to smoke; the smoke is dissipated and does no health damage. In a confined space like a car banning of smoking has the dual purpose of setting a positive example and removing a dangerous situation. If a smoker simply place a large box over the head and then smoked he/she would quickly experience the discomfort and unhealthy side effects of secondary smoke inhalation.
Funny thing about cars ..They have these glass things on the side of them called Windows! If you open one or two when travelling at speed,it actually creates a massive amount of air to come in and out and that air actually will remove smells,cig smoke and light things not bolted down.I would assume that would be able to save any childrens delicate lungs?
Funny thing also John that the said windows will in all probability be closed during Ireland’s cold weather. The air will then be filtered into the car thus blowing the smoke into the faces of the occupants. How about better safe than sorry! Prevention being better than cure!
Oh dear… It seems to me, that with this minister, the children will be lost in a haze of smoke.
On the lowest of the low would smoke in front of their children. Absolute child abuse.
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