Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Briefly, I am concerned about the phrase, notwithstanding anything contained in those Acts, that it should be lawful to sell alcohol to a person who has completed a tour. It occurs to me the Minister disapplied the prohibition in those Acts on underage selling and that by merely construing the two Acts together, he is taking a slight risk that this will be interpreted by some clever lawyer, much cleverer than me, as saying that the prohibition in the Acts does not prohibit the sale to a person under the age of 18. For the remedy thereof, I suggest that we simply say that the term "person" means a person over the age 18 and that could be included in subsection (11) as a definition.