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Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion. (14 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: While we live in a society which has a number of problems——

Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion. (14 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: Deputy Jim O'Keeffe had his opportunity to speak. The House has a duty to legislate to codify the licensing laws.

Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion. (14 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: No one has a problem with that. The House is also obliged to provide for a modern generation of young Irish people the opportunities to which they are entitled. The House has an obligation to put before those people a real choice. They should not have to choose between beer and food as is currently the case. We have the opportunity to adopt a more continental approach, to be brave and to put...

Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion. (14 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: It is not an answer to say we should ban all sports-related sponsorship by alcohol producers, it is, rather, impractical and foolish. It would be impossible to achieve on an international level and would put Irish sport at a very serious disadvantage.

Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion. (14 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: We must be practical and honest.

Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion. (14 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: I believe most emphatically that the consumption of alcohol with food is part, though, I concede, not the entirety, of the solution. As long as we surrender to vested interests to separate the consumption of Irish produced alcohol, be it spirits or otherwise, from food and withdraw from most people in Ireland the opportunity to combine the two, we must take moral responsibility for the...

Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion. (14 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: Posturing, huffing, puffing——

Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion. (14 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: ——and presenting naked advocacy of vested interests as a concern for public health does no credit to the people who moved tonight's motion. The record shows that when Gordon Holmes produced the commission's report there was not a squeak from Fine Gael. The party's participants in chat shows postured as advocates of modernisation and reform only to engage——

Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion. (14 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: ——in the greatest regression away from Civil War politics, with Fine Gael joining the Fianna Fáil backbenchers who have difficulties with all of this tonight.

Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion. (14 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: I was glad to go to a democratically elected group of people and discuss the matter with them. I am always happy to do that.

Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion. (14 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: I am equally glad to say to this House——

Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion. (14 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: ——that I have and will listen to the expression of public opinion. I advanced the proposal for café bars because my Cabinet colleagues asked me to put it out there for consultation.

Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion. (14 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: The aim was to test the waters.

Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion. (14 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: The Deputy should not let the truth get in the way of his own prejudices.

Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion. (14 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: This is the truth. I put it out there and we have had a public debate. I will be the person and the Government will be the Government that has done something about this matter. The waffle, posturing and moralising opposite will be long dead——

Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion. (14 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: ——when the Bill is law and the people salute a Government that had the moral courage to take on vested interests instead of moralising and blustering about it.

Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion. (14 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: That is in the Bill.

Child Care Services. (14 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: I thank the Deputy for affording me the opportunity to update the House on the important issue of child care. I reject the suggestion that I attempted to withdraw funding from any groups.

Child Care Services. (14 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: The Deputy said I attempted to withdraw it.

Child Care Services. (14 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: She should check the record.

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