Dáil debates

Wednesday, 3 October 2018

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage

 

6:10 pm

Photo of Seán SherlockSeán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I seek clarification on the amendment. There are many bars throughout the country which sponsor soccer teams, GAA teams, all classes of sporting organisation and the quid pro quofor that sponsorship is that their particular hostelry is emblazoned on the jersey. As a consequence of this amendment, will that practice cease beyond 31 December 2023? That practice is, by implication, advertising alcohol. If that is the case many smaller clubs who rely on that essential sponsorship from small local family owned inter-generational bars could have a serious permutation in terms of trying to fill the gap on foot of the lack of that sponsorship that would have been readily available. I seek clarification on that?

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