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- Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Charles Flanagan: I just want to make it clear-----
- Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Charles Flanagan: On a point of order, it is most unfair of Deputy Mick Wallace to make allegations when he himself should be declaring his own interest in the issue.
- Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Charles Flanagan: I am in the hands of the House, but I have to say I am not of a mind to create a new form of off-licence. The sale and distribution of a restricted substance, alcohol, fall within the remit of the Department of Justice and Equality. There is other, not unrelated, legislation, the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill, of which I have heard Deputies in the House who are speaking in favour of this...
- Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Charles Flanagan: -----if I am being asked to relax the law and allow a new form of off-licence throughout the country. Deputy Declan Breathnach speaks about tourism. He is right that the basis of the Bill is to facilitate the tourism industry. Deputy Alan Kelly speaks about locals and others dropping out on a Friday night to buy a six-pack.
- Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Charles Flanagan: They are not tourists. Deputy Mick Wallace speaks about opening up craft breweries for off-sales. I acknowledge the spirit of co-operation. It is a Private Members' Bill and I defer to Deputy Alan Kelly on his initiative. I am supportive of the Bill and it is wrong of Deputy Mick Wallace to suggest I do not support it. It is also wrong of him to suggest I have a vested interest by way of...
- Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Charles Flanagan: I make that clear. I hope that by making it clear Deputy Mick Wallace and any other Deputy will make their positions utterly clear too. I am not of a mind to accept the amendments. If people are looking for a compromise, under Dáil procedure, it is not possible to pick and choose certain words from different amendments in the way that has been put to me in order that I might consider...
- Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Charles Flanagan: I recognise the importance of craft breweries for a number of reasons, not least the provision of employment, the production, marketing, sale and distribution of excellent Irish product, as well as that of the tourism industry. I do not think it was ever the intention that this tourism-prompted Bill would, in effect, lead to a new off-licence regime, particularly in places where many pubs in...
- Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Charles Flanagan: I thank the Ceann Comhairle.
- Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Charles Flanagan: That is exactly what we are doing.
- Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Charles Flanagan: I thought Deputy Danny Healy-Rae was a defender of the rural pub.
- Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Charles Flanagan: I heard the Deputy talking about the demise of the rural pub.
- Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Charles Flanagan: The Deputy wants transport for fellows to get home from the pub.
- Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Charles Flanagan: That is what I am providing for. I am not preventing that.
- Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Charles Flanagan: They can do so, but only under certain circumstances.
- Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Charles Flanagan: Once a week?
- Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Charles Flanagan: I move amendment No. 4:In page 3, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(3) A licence issued by the Revenue Commissioners in accordance with subsection (2)—(a) shall expire at midnight on the next following 30 September after the commencement of the period to which the licence relates, and (b) may be renewed.”. The Revenue Commissioners have requested the...
- Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Charles Flanagan: Is Deputy Wallace withdrawing the amendment?
- Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Charles Flanagan: I see myself being portrayed here by Deputy Wallace, Deputy Kelly and even Deputy Breathnach as some form of killjoy-----
- Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Charles Flanagan: -----in the matter of this tourism initiative. I stated earlier, and I restate strongly now, that I am not minded to opening up a new category of off-licence in the State. I say that with particular reference to the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill and the utterances, and the disposition, of Members of all parties in this House. I am surprised at the contradictions in the parties' positions on...
- Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Charles Flanagan: I am talking about Judicial Appointments Commission Bill, which is currently going through the Seanad and dealing with a series of amendments that were ruled out of order under controversial circumstances here late one night.