Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

He is not interested, I would say. I know that it is difficult to concentrate for hours. This gentleman with the distillery is located in a high-rise building. He said that if there was a playschool within 200 m, he could not advertise his business. This is someone who is putting hundreds of thousands of euro into this business but cannot advertise if he is within 200 m of a playschool. That will be very damaging for that man's business. There are many more visitor centres. There are 13 distilleries and visitor centres proposed for the coming year.

People across the world look at Ireland and see the good drink products that we produce, and when they come here, they want to visit and sample some of that drink. We should not prohibit them from doing so by pulling down advertisements that would have been visible to people long ago and never caused an issue. We are trying to create a bit of employment in west Cork and in other places with these distilleries and visitor centres and they will find it difficult with all these rules and regulations. What happens if they have a little booklet to promote their business, as one would expect many must? Are they allowed to have a booklet anymore to hand to visitors? Must they have a little tag about cancer on every page? The Minister could clarify that. It seems as though there are so many rules and regulations that people would nearly need a book as thick as a dictionary to see what they can and cannot do in future.

I will keep my discussion on amendments as brief as possible but I would like some answers.

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