Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 2 November 2011
548 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health her views that proposals on the sale price of off-licence drink will encourage persons to go across the Border to purchase cheaper alcohol hence reducing revenue to the Exchequer. [32436/11]
View answerPricing policy on alcohol products — along with measures for the policy areas of prevention strategies, treatment, rehabilitation, alcohol and substance dependency, and research and information — is one of the areas being considered by the National Substance Misuse Strategy Steering Group that was established in 2009. The report of the Steering Group is close to completion; I expect to receive proposals in the coming months and I will then brief my colleagues in Government on these. But in the meantime, I will not pre-empt the work of the Group.
