Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 March 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed)
9:30 am
Mr. Padraig Cribben:
Absolutely none. We are all consumers. Let us suppose a person goes into his or her local store or a filling station. Are you telling me he or she has to go to the back of the store and pass everything else before he or she gets to the alcohol products? The compliance figure is 83%. I maintain that is rubbish; that is not the reality. The reality is very different. It is that the code has been written in a particular way to suit the objectives of those who set it up in order that they can go back to the Government to make the case for not introducing section 9 because the voluntary code of practice in place is working. It is a fraud.
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