Seanad debates

Thursday, 19 June 2003

Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2003: Committee Stage.

 

Subsection (7) affords the Minister the opportunity to ensure that, once he has granted an organisation a licence under section 21, the regulations will be carried out to the letter of the law and we will not have tokenism associated with costs or economies. As I said, Croke Park has a capacity of 80,000. If one goes to the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, one will find that it, too, has plenty of resources and that there is no need to push or shove therein. I bring my children there and they do not feel they are exposed to the drink culture because of the manner in which intoxicating liquor is sold. Croke Park has a responsibility to young people to discharge its responsibilities under the law. I feel very strongly about this matter – it is the only one I raised in respect of this Bill – and hope the Minister will derive some sense from what I am suggesting.

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