Justice Committee chairman James Lawless has proposed that 'dry bars' instead of full bars could operate until 6am under the new later opening hours laws coming our way next year.
He said: "It wouldn’t be ideal to have every town in the country partying until 6 in the morning, there’d be very little work done the next day."
Mr Lawless also said that drinkers would have to pay for a new fund to tackle the harmful health effects of alcohol on society.
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Sources say that this could see the price of an ordinary pint "race towards 10 very quickly."
Mr Lawless said that there should be a "polluter pays principle" for the new drink levy that would fund the proposed new Social Research Fund.
If the industry has to pay the levy instead of the ordinary pint drinker, it can be taken for granted that the drinks companies or pub owners will put it on the drinker’s tab in the end through higher prices at the bar.
The Fianna Fail TD said that "not every event has to revolve around alcohol" as he published his committee’s pre-legislative scrutiny report on the new Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022.
This is basically the ‘quality control’ part of introducing a new law and Justice Minister Helen McEntee will be expected to take their recommendations for changes seriously.
Mr Lawless presented his report with its 27 recommendations in Leinster House on Thursday morning, with stakeholders and politicians invited...
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