asked the Taoiseach the estimated total expenditure on alcoholic drink in 1979 and the estimated number of persons in the Republic aged 18 years and over in 1979.
Written Answers. - Alcoholic Drink Expenditure.
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It is estimated that the total personal expenditure on alcoholic drink in 1978 was £485 million. Corresponding information for the year 1979 is not yet available.
An up-to-date breakdown of the total population in different age-groups will not be available until further results from the census of population 1979 are published later this year.