Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Public Order Offences from Alcohol Misuse Perspective: Discussion

12:00 pm

Professor Tim Stockwell:

Not in this one. That is why it is going upwards, but the model is taking that into account because it is taking account of the increase in the numbers. The effects have nothing to do with the increase in population. It concerns a certain impact of those two moments when the taxes were increased. The numbers came right down even though the population is going up at that point. Therefore the model factors in the population increase.