David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The response to that was overwhelmingly in favour of keeping pubs closed on Good Friday. There is no research to show that this was a popular thing, it was just a fantasy.

One of the issues that came in, which was very significant, is off licence sales. I got a very detailed note about below cost selling of alcohol by the supermarkets. This is an absolute plague.They are dropping the price of vodka, whiskey and all the rest of it, let alone the slabs of beer, to a very considerable extent.