Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I note the Minister's comments and welcome his commitment to deal with this at a later date. Deputies who raise the issue of rural Ireland at every available opportunity, as they will, do so on this occasion in a somewhat misguided way. Some 500 people every year die as a direct result of alcohol harm in this State. It is not confined to cities. If it was, I could understand and take seriously some of the concerns. It gets a little hard to hear every day that everything that happens is an attack on rural Ireland. This is a health Bill.

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