Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 5:

In page 4, to delete line 2 and substitute “relevant licence, Wine Retailers On Licence and Restaurant Certificate, shall be extinguished.”.

The Government argues that the purpose of this limitation is to prevent abuses and distortions of competition between categories of licensed premises. Currently, some public houses contain a brewery and operate on the basis of their public house licence, including permitted trading hours. If such premises could operate simultaneously on the basis of the proposed new retail licence for holders of manufacturing licences, they would be in a position to sell intoxicating liquor during hours outside of what we are in the process of agreeing. I am prepared to withdraw the amendment, therefore, in the interest of conciliation.

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