Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 March 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: (Resumed) Alcohol Research Group

9:30 am

Dr. John Holmes:

Ireland is quite different, depending on which countries one is looking at. The United States is a number of different countries combined into one and there are quite different cultures. There is everything from Utah, which is totally dry, to California and New York, both of which are similar to Europe, to some of the southern states which have strong religious influences. It is quite different.

I would say that Ireland is likely to see an impact. It is likely to be substantial and to be of that order of magnitude, but I could not say it will be 2% or 7%. I would not like to put a specific number on that.

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