Seanad debates

Thursday, 19 June 2003

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2003: Committee Stage.

 

If I made a concession for hoteliers I would be immediately attacked by the publicans, who would say that all the families in a particular resort were now going to the hotel because they had to bar the kids from their premises whereas the hoteliers did not. I ask the House to bear with me and stand with me on this. I am being reasonable, and moving the time limit to 9 p.m. deals with virtually all the real points of substance that were made about family holidays. After 9 p.m. parents will have to either ask their 16 and 17 year olds to sit outside the bar in the other portions of the hotel or move out with them. Alternatively, the hotelier will have to provide some space in which the family can get on with its revelry together.

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