Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I was going to make a similar point, but Deputy McGrath has made it well. I will focus instead on the issue of wine as it relates to the question posed by Deputy Kyne. The Minister referred in his reply to excise duty on beer products. Has the Department of Finance undertaken any analysis of wine products, which attract the highest excise duty across Europe? What wine lovers actually get for their €8 or €9 spend on a bottle of wine is very little wine, because a large proportion of that cost relates to excise duty. Has the Department undertaken any research or analysis of the impact of two concurrent increases in excise duty on that sector, which is the issue raised in the question?

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