Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

Is the Tánaiste, as Minister for Health and Children, happy that the Government has capitulated abjectly to the major alcohol producers in not proceeding with the legislation to ban or curb advertising which glamorises alcohol? Does she have the same confidence in the multinational firms that control alcohol as the Taoiseach when he says the firms themselves are now policing this advertising? Alternatively, would she not agree with me that it is a case of expecting the fox to restrain itself when fat chickens come into view? If the Tánaiste takes seriously her responsibility as Minister for Health and Children, will she put forward the relevant legislation again?

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