Seanad debates
Wednesday, 18 June 2003
Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2003: Second Stage.
I appreciate that, under section 6(1), it will be an offence for a drunken person to refuse to leave the licensed premises when requested to do so, either by the licence-holder or the gardaĆ. However, I wonder whether it is fair and proper, having regard to the legal, practical and insurance issues which daily arise for publicans, hoteliers and their employees, to impose a statutory obligation on licence-holders to refuse to admit drunken persons and at the same time fail to recognise and uphold their right to remove those who have already entered the premises when observed to be drunk. Worse still are cases where people enter a premises having already been lawfully refused admission. Can the licence holder do no more than call the Garda?
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