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Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 July 2001

Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as the Tobacco Control Agency, to provide for the registration of persons engaged in the business of selling tobacco products by retail, to provide for a prohibition on the advertising of tobacco products, a prohibition on sponsorship by manufacturers and importers of tobacco products and prohibitions on certain marketing practices in relation to tobacco products, to provide for the prohibition or restriction of tobacco smoking in certain places, to repeal the Tobacco Products (Control of Advertising, Sponsorship and Sales Promotion) Act, 1978, and the Tobacco (Health Promotion and Protection) Act, 1988, and to provide for matters connected therewith

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4 Mr. G. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children the measures he will introduce to reduce the threat to the lives of hospital patients from the super bug MRSA; his views on whether a key cause of the spread of infection in hospital patients is the overcrowding in hospitals and the lack of separate facilities for infectious patients; the measures he proposes to introduce to control the use of antibiotics; the measures he proposes to introduce to educate the public to use antibiotics properly; the programmes in place for the training of hospital staff; if he will introduce educational programmes for all health care workers on infection control; if he will establish a network of laboratories around the State to monitor infection by drug resistant microbes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19449/01]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 June 2001

4 Mr. G. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children the measures he will introduce to reduce the threat to the lives of hospital patients from the super bug MRSA; his views on whether a key cause of the spread of infection in hospital patients is the overcrowding in hospitals and the lack of separate facilities for infectious patients; the measures he proposes to introduce to control the use of antibiotics; the measures he proposes to introduce to educate the public to use antibiotics properly; the programmes in place for the training of hospital staff; if he will introduce educational programmes for all health care workers on infection control; if he will establish a network of laboratories around the State to monitor infection by drug resistant microbes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19449/01]