Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----and Members of the Oireachtas on a cross-party basis. This is legislation that those working on the front line who see the impact of alcohol want us are begging us to implement. The Bill has been in the offing for over 1,000 days, and we have a duty to get on with it.

I am shocked by some of the comments I have heard. People have made statements of fact to the effect that there is no established link between cancer and alcohol. That is a mistruth. That is as far as I can go in this House. It is not true in any way and the World Health Organization states it is not true. This year some 900 people in this country will develop alcohol-related cancers and 500 of them will die. Between 2001 and 2010, 2,823 men in rural and urban areas, perhaps some of whose funerals and wakes Deputies attended, died of alcohol-related cancers. Some 1,700 women died of alcohol-related cancers. Is it too much to say we should stick a small label on a bottle-----

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