Ms Evelyn Jones:

Absolutely. At the meeting in Croke Park it was not the drinks industry that asked the question but the chief executives of the large multiples. The committee can take this for what it is worth.

On the Chairman's point about breaches of the RRAI's code, if we turn to page 13 of the appendix, there is a photograph of alcohol products located opposite the till area. This was a complaint we had made on behalf of one of our members, but it was held not to be relevant. The reply we received from the RRAI was that people did not have to pass through the area in which alcohol products were on sale to get to the food products. However, they do have to pass through it to get to the till.