Mary White (Fianna Fail)

My experience of attending community or official meetings in Northern Ireland is that people are just offered tea whereas here people feel they must produce alcohol at meetings. I am not being a spoilsport but we have to get away from the culture of foisting drink on people when a cup of tea is just as good. I am delighted with the Bill and I thank the Minister.

Whenever I get bad service from young people in shops or stores, I automatically think they are tired from drinking the night before. I feel strongly about this matter from an economic as well as a social point of view.