Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 11 February 2004
147 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she intends to introduce legislation which would enable health and safety officers to enforce the smoking ban in line with the arrangements previously envisaged. [4087/04]
View answerThe Minister for Health and Children has announced his intention to ban smoking in most places of work from the perspective of public health. Existing Irish legislation already prohibits or restricts smoking in many public places and protects a significant number of employees from passive smoking in the workplace.
The Health and Safety Authority's inspectors will be enforcing the smoking ban under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 1989 as part of their ongoing inspection activity.
