Seanad debates

Thursday, 3 April 2003

The Commission on Liquor Licensing has reported. I strongly believe super pubs or "boozeramas", as Senator Norris called them, are places that are inimical, hateful and a breeding ground for more and more drink. They are in the market business. Their approach is to rake young people in, fill them up, spill them out and then count the money. There is the appeal of the glamour of a super pub with its beckoning seductive lights, chants of loud chatter, loud clinks of glasses and young people cocooned in what they believe is a place where they and their peers can have a whopping good time. I am all for having good times and certainly like my drink but the proliferation of super pubs is a bad idea.

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