Marie Louise O'Donnell (Independent)
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I wonder how concrete that measure is. Every week, month or year in the universities, there are rag weeks and drink days. We had a drink Monday and a Donegal Tuesday, which had nothing to do with the county but where students were queuing up from 10 a.m. We had people rioting in the middle of a town and hundreds of students trying to get into a place to get shots before noon, when they were cheaper. I wonder about the concrete evidence. It is one thing to have a mentoring system, but it is another to have the university stand up from an educational point of view to alcohol on campus. I was asking about definite measures and feelings about that. My second question is on studies of alcohol and the rise of certain cancers.

This is the justice committee and we are focused on public order. That question relates to the health committee.