Seanad debates

Wednesday, 18 June 2003

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2003: Second Stage.

 

10:30 am

Photo of Ann OrmondeAnn Ormonde (Fianna Fail)

They have to take full responsibility. Everybody knows his or her rights but with rights there are responsibilities. If all those points could be incorporated into a future Bill, perhaps under a separate agency and a separate Minister dealing with this area, the public would be pleased.

I congratulate the Minister, who is responding well to this problem. I invite him to make it known to the public that this is where we are at. The bottom line is that we have a public relations exercise. I ask him to get after the sports clubs and the drinks industry in respect of advertising and glamourising the sale of drink and what it stands for. Let us get back to a society we all love. This is a beautiful little country. Do not let it go downhill.

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