Michael Mullins (Fine Gael)
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I welcome our visitors. We all want a vibrant pub trade in which families can continue to make a living. Mr. Mulholland mentioned the food side of the business. What percentage of UK pubs serve food? Are the health and safety regulations on the provision of food strict? Sometimes we get complaints that Ireland is possibly over-regulated in terms of food provision. What are individual UK pubs doing to attract new customers to the local pub for a pint, thus discouraging people from consuming more alcohol at home? What was the political reaction to the tax reduction for beer? I imagine there might be an adverse reaction to reducing tax on beer, particularly as we are just emerging from a difficult economic climate. If there was one element of the Irish pub that Mr. Mulholland would like to bring back to the UK, what would it be? If he were to advise us to transport something from the UK to Ireland, what would it be?