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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Dr. O'Connor would have a view on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I can organise one for the Deputy in Cork.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy has just a couple of minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I will allow Deputy Pearse Doherty one brief question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I will round off something with Mr. Cribben before I bring in Deputy Donnelly. On this consumption figure of 14 litres, I am trying to quantify what 14 litres of alcohol looks like. It is quite a frightening concept. It was 14 litres per adult per annum in 2001 and it was just 10.7 litres in 2011, is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: In 2004, the smoking ban was introduced. It certainly had an impact on the publican side of DIGI's trade. In 2008, the transport Act reduced the consumption of alcohol for drivers to one drink. In the way that the smoking ban is travelling east out of Ireland, what the Swedes introduced is travelling west. It is only a matter of time before there will be no acceptable level of alcohol in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Is it about time the vintners of the country looked at a different business model, that the business model of 14 litres per adult per annum, where the vast majority of that was being consumed on premises, is gone and that we need a new type of business model?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: This brings me to the fundamental question I want to ask Mr. Cribben. He is dead right. The pub experience in Ireland is unique and gives our business model a particular type of branding and a particular advantage over other destination points. Those in the retail trade have embraced significantly online technology and even though one can buy a mobile phone online, the research will show...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I am the only Government Deputy who has not received a ministerial appointment, but I wish them well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Is that per annum?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Do Mr. Talbot, Ms Burke and Mr. Cribben have anything to add?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: It is a tax on consumption.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: In other jurisdictions the cost of a pint is more than €5.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: That is not the case in all pubs. In any of the pubs I have been to in Britain, France and so on, alcohol was around the same price as in Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: In what European capitals is the cost of a pint cheaper than in Dublin?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Am I correct that what Mr. Cribben is saying is that prices in Dublin are marginally more expensive than everywhere else in the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: With regard to minimum pricing, in what direction should we be going?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: IBEC's presentation is based on the assumption that the correction at the end of the year will be approximately €200 million. Some people say the actual correction needed is €1.5 billion. Two hundred million is a fair bit off that amount. Let us take it that the correction will be €200 million. Ms Burke referred in her presentation to the need for tax and other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: The €200 million projection is based on our doing nothing. IBEC is proposing that tax and other reliefs be given, which means that that €200 million could become €1 billion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: IBEC is in favour of current expenditure reductions and a lessening of the tax regime.