Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)

I would welcome the introduction of the Bill at the earliest opportunity. In recent weeks, in one of my local towns, a number of young people were so out of their minds with alcohol, they did not know what they were doing. When will the sale of alcohol Bill come before the House to allow Deputies discuss the regulation of alcohol?

On the one hand, the Health Service Executive informs us it will not remove services until better services are available to replace them while, on the other, it informs us in the same notice that it is removing all acute services from Monaghan General Hospital this year. When will the health information Bill, which dictates that the HSE should tell us the facts and not mislead us, come before the House? If deaths occur in Monaghan, it will be at the head of this House. This is a serious issue.

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