Written answers
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Department of Health
Tax Code
8:00 pm
Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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Question 548: To ask the Minister for Health her views that proposals on the sale price of off-licence drink will encourage persons to go across the Border to purchase cheaper alcohol hence reducing revenue to the Exchequer [32436/11]
James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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Pricing policy on alcohol products - along with measures for the policy areas of prevention strategies, treatment, rehabilitation, alcohol and substance dependency, and research and information - is one of the areas being considered by the National Substance Misuse Strategy Steering Group that was established in 2009. The report of the Steering Group is close to completion; I expect to receive proposals in the coming months and I will then brief my colleagues in Government on these. But in the meantime, I won't pre-empt the work of the Group.
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