Seanad debates

Thursday, 28 November 2002

I ask the Leader for a discussion on the growth of drink-related problems in this country. When I started raising this issue four or five years ago I was laughed out of court, even in this House. I think we all realise know how serious this matter is. At weekends, 50% of admissions into accident and emergency units in Dublin hospitals, and I think throughout the country, are drink-related. That is an enormous waste of our hospital's skills. Many of these people are young women, who were not traditionally rendered unconscious at weekends by taking too much drink. Then there are all the unprovoked street attacks.

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