Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)
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Question 141: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the 2009 report of the Alcohol Marketing Communications Monitoring Body will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19490/10]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)
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Question 142: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of times the Consultative Panel on the Codes of Alcohol Marketing, Communications and Sponsorship has met in both 2009 and 2010; the issues discussed at these meetings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19491/10]

Áine Brady (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 141 and 142 together.

I expect to receive the 2009 Report of the Alcohol Marketing Communications Monitoring Body in early June. I intend to make it available on the Department of Health and Children website soon thereafter. The Consultative Panel first met in May 2009 and has not met to date in 2010. The first meeting discussed the membership of the Group, the operation of the Group, and the Codes on Alcohol, Marketing, Communications and Sponsorship.

The Department is currently carrying out a review of the Codes. The results of this review will inform the Department's policy on the controls and structures required for the monitoring of alcohol marketing in the coming years.

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)
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Question 143: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received the final report of the working group on sports sponsorship by the alcohol industry; if so, when she plans to publish the report and act on its recommendations on the phasing out of alcohol sponsorship of sporting events; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19492/10]

Áine Brady (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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The Report of the Working Group on Sport Sponsorship by the Alcohol Industry has been finalised and is currently being considered by my Department. The Report will be published on the Department's website shortly. The issue of sport sponsorship by the alcohol industry is also likely to be considered by the Steering Group developing the National Substance Misuse Strategy. My Department will await the views of that Steering Group on the issue of sport sponsorship before deciding on the next course of action.