Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No. 18 seeks to treat sales in airports. It is not about airport pubs but rather in "duty-free", although sales are not always duty-free. It is about sales on the air side of security for someone getting on a plane. The thinking is we want to see the best of both worlds. We must meet our public health obligations and the proposal is for that to be done in the same way as has been accepted for licensed premises. At the same stage, we want to ensure the Irish product leaving the country is competing on a level playing field. The proposal relates to what the legislation refers to as a "tax-free shop". It is essentially on the air side of security for somebody getting on a plane. The sales in those areas would have exactly the same warnings as have been deemed appropriate for licensed premises in the State.