Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to make the point that we are talking about a very small number of venues that will open and serve alcohol until 5 a.m. I would say that only a handful of venues in this city will avail of this. I have spoken to some promoters who cannot see how it would even be financially viable to open until that hour at the current time. For nightclubs, this is their best opportunity to put cultural activity at the heart of the night time industry.

I welcome some of the recommendations from the Mandate trade union. I have read previous submissions to the night time economy task force and they were very worthwhile. They included premium pay for workers and eventually moving towards the renewal of licences being conditional on workers' rights and compliance with employment law.