Mr. Martin Condon:

There has already been an example of alcohol prohibition - not in Ireland but in the USA. We saw the problems that were created. It was not that someone was going around with a bottle of Heineken in their back pocket but that people moved to harder substances, with whiskey and spirits, because the volume became a problem. Obtaining beer would have become a problem but whiskey and so on would have been easily available. We have seen the effects of alcohol prohibition. If alcohol was only invented tomorrow, we have seen the results that prohibition could bring to society with the machine guns, the tommy gun that became infamous because of alcohol prohibition. When we apply that to other drugs we see the Kinahans, another infamous name. That speaks for itself.