David Norris (Independent)

Of course it is, if these people are creating a nuisance or intimidating people. The Senator said their behaviour was intimidatory and was causing a nuisance to neighbours. It is covered by other aspects of the law.

The Minister is saying what I was trying to say on Second Stage, which was that the vast majority do not object to people drinking. On the Continent young people are encouraged and educated to drink by their parents, but we have a much worse problem here where they are not. The problem is not that people take a drink, it is the behaviour consequent upon that. That behaviour is covered by other aspects of the law. We are travelling down a dead end.