I have recently been visiting my grand-son in Our Lady's Childrens' Hospital in Crumlin and I wish "someone" (yeah, I know, him again) would implement the smoking regulations.
There is a perfectly good smokers area opposite the main entrances with ash-trays, litter containers, seating, etc provided by the HSE. Outside the buliding, presumably to stop smoke blowing in the doors and windows and to avoid congestion around the entrances, they have placed big no smoking signs which are of course being ignored. Yesterday the roadway, footpath, flower-beds and drains were littered with fag-butts, card-board coffee-cups, matches and empty fag-packets.
While I was using the smokers area for a fag and a coffee, an ambulance arrived and a child on a trolley was admitted via a smokers "guard of honour" huddled around the main entrance.
Presumably as the outside of the building is still on HSE property, they are perfectly entitled to post the no smoking signs and to attempt to restrict smoking to the designated area. That being the case, I wish "someone" would implement the rule as the place looks disgraceful.