Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The issue of alcohol sponsorship has not been long-fingered. I have decided that we should look at this element of it in a different way and under the Department of the Taoiseach, this will respond within 12 months from when we made that decision.

The Bill, as Deputy Shortall will be aware, is being worked upon by her successor, the Minister of State, Deputy White, who has done a great deal of work on this. On the publication of the Bill, I do not want to give the Deputy an exact date, but it is now practically completed.

In so far as the regulations about the prescribed drugs Deputy Shortall mentions are concerned, I am not aware of what progress was made but I will ask for a response to be sent to Deputy Shortall on this.

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