Seanad debates
Wednesday, 18 June 2003
Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2003: Second Stage.
I am a libertarian, laissez faire kind of person. I do not give a damn if people drink at 5 a.m. That is not what worries me. I do not think that it worries the Minister either. What worries all of us is the behaviour of people after they have drunk. We have a huge job of education to do to show that certain behaviours are not acceptable. I approve of the Minister's very timely and useful intervention to protect the rights of licensees who want to exclude people. The licensee has a perfect right to tell somebody who is behaving badly to get out of his or her pub but that does not always resolve all the problems.
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