Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 June 2018

Select Committee on Health

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage

9:00 am

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 18:

In page 16, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following:"(17) (a) This section shall not apply to the sale of alcohol products in a tax-free shop to travellers departing the State.

(b) "Tax-free shop" means a tax-free shop within the meaning of Article 14 of Council Directive 2008/118/EC of 16 December 2008 concerning the general arrangements for excise duty and repealing Directive 92/12/EEC.

(c) A tax-free shop shall, in the prescribed manner, inside the premises, display a notice or notices in the prescribed form, which shall include in the prescribed form, in both the English and Irish language—
(i) a warning that is intended to inform the public of the danger of alcohol consumption,

(ii) a warning that is intended to inform the public of the danger of alcohol consumption when pregnant,

(iii) a warning that is intended to inform the public of the direct link between alcohol and fatal cancers,

(iv) details of a website, to be established and maintained by the Executive, providing public health information in relation to alcohol consumption, and

(v) confirmation that a document specifying the matters set out in paragraph (d)is available for inspection on request at the premises concerned.
(d) The document referred to in paragraph (c)(v) shall specify the following:
(i) the quantity in grams of alcohol of each quantity, measure or unit of every alcohol product that is for sale in the licensed premises concerned, and

(ii) the energy value expressed in kilojoules and kilocalories of each quantity, measure or unit of every alcohol product that is for sale in the licensed premises concerned.”

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