Seanad debates

Thursday, 19 June 2003

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2003: Committee Stage.

 

I will ask my officials to consider exactly what Senator McDowell has proposed as an amendment to this Bill. Rather than go down that road this time, I prefer to give myself time to think about whether it would be fair or proportionate or whether there would be a way out of it for people for whom it was disproportionate. Those are the kinds of issues in the back of my mind. I accept the bona fides of this amendment but at the same time I ask the House to bear with me for a year while I think the whole issue through. I do not want to impose huge liabilities on places which have three customers a night and for whom it would make practically no difference.

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