Ned O'Sullivan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Recently, there has been a great deal of media coverage of alcohol abuse. One factor that has often been pinpointed is the amount of alcohol consumed at home as opposed to in pubs. I had a brainwave. If one goes into a pub for a whiskey or a gin, one knows the exact measure. If it is small, the amount is 4 cl. A large one is twice that. At home, however, people have no such controls. How many of us when visiting someone's home have been prevailed upon to take a whiskey, only to find a naggin-full in our hands? We do not like refusing people.