Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)

As a brief preamble, given that the record demonstrates that my preambles are quite short, it is mid-summer again and people as young as 12 can be seen drunk on the streets. They order from off-licences by getting other people to order their drink. In that context, I see it is proposed to publish the sale of alcohol Bill by mid-2006. It is now mid-2006 and, unless the Bill is published within the next two weeks, it will not be published until the autumn. Will it published within the next two weeks?

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