Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 July 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion

2:50 pm

Photo of Ciarán LynchCiarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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I am not interested in the excise burden as the argument relates to customers buying pints. If I put X amount of money on the counter I will get X amount of alcohol back. In Ireland it seems one gets a reasonable amount of alcohol for a given price compared with other countries. I discovered at the weekend that measures for spirits in Britain are around half as big as those in Ireland and around twice the price.