Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 354: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the decision of October 2006 by the French Government to require labels on alcoholic beverages warning of the dangers of drinking during pregnancy; her plans to introduce a similar requirement here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33887/06]

Seán Power (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is aware of the decision of the French Government to require labels on alcohol beverage containers warning of the dangers of drinking during pregnancy. Officials from my Department are contacting the French authorities to obtain further details.

The issue of the information contained on labels on alcoholic beverages was considered by the Working Group on Alcohol Misuse which was established to help mobilise the stakeholders through social partnership to achieve a targeted and measurable reduction in alcohol misuse. One of the recommendations of the Working Group was that a group, representative of all relevant stakeholders, would be established to consider what useful information could be included on non-draft alcohol products, taking account of international evidence. An Implementation Group is now being established to monitor implementation of the recommendations of the Working Group. The issue of warning labels on alcohol products will, therefore, initially be considered within this framework.