Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)

I take the point the Minister makes but St. Patrick's Day is the day we celebrate our Irishness. What happened in central Dublin on that occasion was no credit to us. There was a high level of drunkenness among some participants and surely there is some way to curtail drinking on the scale which occurred then. We have had other incidents of violence and robbery also and it is time to nip this behaviour in the bud, as such behaviour tends to grow if it is not stopped.

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