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

Mr. Colin Angus:

In addition, by the time a measure has gone through the legislative process the industry is likely to have already started to respond. As per the Scottish pricing data, bottles of wine which were previously sold for just under the minimum price threshold have increased during the past three or four years to just above that threshold. It is unlikely that that is a coincidence. Some of the impact of the policy will be lost because the industry will already have started to react it.

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