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Costs for local shops and the Guinness Christmas ad... just two stumbling blocks facing alcohol bill

The bill seeks to restrict the sale and advertising of alcohol across the country.

TROUBLE IS BREWING in Leinster House with the government’s announcement this week that it prioritising the controversial Public Health Alcohol Bill.

The bill, which is being backed by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Health Minister Simon Harris, seeks to restrict the sale and advertising of alcohol across the country.

It has been in the headlines before when it was being promoted by the former junior health minister Marcella Corcoran Kennedy. However, the bill hit a stumbling block back then when members of the Independent Alliance, and even TDs and Senators within the Fine Gael party voiced their opposition.

But it is not just politicians: Senator Frances Black has said lobbyists are lining up to block the bill.

So, what is it about?

There are a number of areas the proposed legislation addresses. The bill will set minimum pricing – beneath which alcohol cannot be sold. Varadkar said that minimum unit pricing will effectively ban low-cost sales of alcoholic products.

“This measure has the potential to really impact on people who consume alcohol in a harmful and hazardous fashion and it can do so quickly,” he said.

The introduction of labelling on alcohol products is also included, which will result in clear warnings about the danger alcohol poses to our health.

Labels on alcohol products will contain health warnings and advice, details of the amount of pure alcohol each beverage contains and a calorie count.

The bill will also make it illegal to market or advertise alcohol in a manner that is appealing to children or that makes it look glamourous.

This will include restrictions on broadcast marketing and advertising, cinema advertising, outdoor advertising, print media and the regulation of sponsorship by alcohol companies.

This obviously is of concern to those in the industry, with the Alcohol Beverage Federation of Ireland (ABFI) (which represents alcoholic drinks manufacturers and suppliers in Ireland) stating that the new rules will have “far-reaching negative consequences for alcohol advertising”.

This week, it used the famous Guinness Christmas advert to illustrate its point.

In turn, Alcohol Action Ireland hit back, saying that the measures are good for society because the drinks industry will “no longer be able to hijack our every moment, reflect every emotion or share every success” in ads such as the Christmas Guinness one.

In a statement, it said that Diageo can have “functional promotion” but “can’t have Christmas too”.

Speaking about the reference advertisement, Eunan McKinney, head of communications and advocacy at Alcohol Action Ireland said:

Guinness seeks to capture our sentimental memories of Christmas so that they can be portray themselves as essential to the spirit of Christmas. In essence, the ABFI claim illustrates what they see as an infringement on big alcohol’s ‘acquisition’ of Christmas.
This is precisely the link these modest measures seek to influence in the future.

He said the new regulations will, over time, reshape our conscious relationship with alcohol, adding that the regulations proposed on the content of advertisement will affect that change, but without removing businesses ability to market.

Impact on small rural shops 

While those in the drinks industry obviously take issue with advertising restrictions that they believe will impact their business, the aspect that many politicians have a problem with is the separating of alcohol from other products in small shops.

For this reason Fine Gael senators blocked the bill from passing last October and earlier this year. Alcohol Action Ireland argues that this measure is crucial in helping bring an end to the present situation, where alcohol is being sold as if it is just another everyday item along with bread and milk.

“Alcohol is not a grocery and it’s time we stopped treating it like one,” the organisation says. However, TDs and senators, particularly from rural areas, believe the cost of what has become known as the ‘booze curtain’ rule will cause huge financial damage to small corner shops.

The political opposition prevented the bill from progressing and caused significant problems for the former Taoiseach Enda Kenny. Now though, Harris and Varadkar are pushing ahead with the bill and are not taking kindly to those in the party they feel are speaking out of turn on the issue.

Political leadership 

At the launch of the Rutland Centre’s second annual recovery month addiction awareness campaign this summer, Harris made known exactly what he thinks of his colleagues who block this bill.

Every political party stands up in the Dáil and tells yourself and colleagues in the media they support action on alcohol. Well, now it’s time for them to show that. You can make every Trojan horse argument you wish to dilute this legislation, but at the end of the day if we are serious about showing political leadership on alcohol, rather than political platitudes, we need to get on with delivering this legislation.

He acknowledged concerns about small businesses and said he would address the issues with an amendment but was adamant the bill would not be watered down.

Minister of State for the OPW with special responsibility for Flooding, Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran said last year that he left Corcoran-Kennedy ”under no illusion as to their total opposition of the segregation element of the bill” when it was under her remit.

He told TheJournal.ie that he has yet to see any amendment put forward by Harris which would deal with the financial implications placed on smaller shops.

Without the amendment, he said he cannot support the bill. “I haven’t seen any change put forward yet for shops. I can’t stand by it because it will cost too much money for smaller businesses,” he said.

He added that there is “far too much red tape” that is benefiting the “big people” and making “the smaller people suffer”.

Moran said he wanted to be clear that he supports the other aspects of the bill, and is anxious to see it “get over the line” with a “satisfactory amendment”.

The bill, which has been debated since around 2015, should now pass because it has the support of Fianna Fáil.

“We need to ensure it passes. Public health and minimum pricing were key issues,” said Micheál Martin at his party’s think-in this week.

“It is time to get on with it and get it passed,” he added. Harris said he is keen for the bill to proceed through the Dáil before Halloween.

The bill allows for a review of the new measures to be carried out after a period of two years to establish if they are achieving the policy objections.

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    Mute Maurice O Neill
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    Aug 19th 2020, 7:17 AM

    Put your house on President Trump. He is what we would like to refer to in a race as a Banker

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    Aug 19th 2020, 7:28 AM

    @Maurice O Neill: And with that attitude, you are what we like to refer to as a wan…

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    Aug 19th 2020, 7:29 AM

    @Maurice O Neill: I know a word that rhymes with it that describes Trump to a tee.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 8:45 AM

    @Mark Brown: just because he has a different opinion than you?? i think it’s pretty clear who the wan (as you so eloquently put it) is in this situation. What a world we live in

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    Aug 19th 2020, 9:00 AM

    @Nowa Huta: Thats the best argument that anti Trump’s can come up with. Typical.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 9:16 AM

    @Maurice O Neill: ” yes we can ” ” make America great again ” and now ” make America whole” is it just who can come up with the cheesyist slogan wins !

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    Aug 19th 2020, 9:37 AM

    @Michael: I think the problem is that it doesn’t matter what the argument is, or how many facts are placed in front of them, Trump supporters are incapable of seeing him for what he is.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 10:03 AM

    @ahhhhh its: Most people think that Trumps personality is little to be desired, however his policies and also by-and-large sticking to his election promises have galvanised his base.
    It’s interesting to see that while he has lost some support (especially from never-Hillary voters) he has gained a large following from African Americans and Hispanics. There is a large and growing support base there from the #Blexit and #WalkAway movements.
    Kimberly Klacik is a prime example of this and there are many more like her out there.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 10:10 AM

    @Pat Kelly: Americans love that stuff

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    Aug 19th 2020, 10:40 AM

    @Daniel Dunne: list of the policies and promises kept there for us. Also, on Klacik, you’re basically talking about one person. One person is not a symptom of anything. Especially a person that already lost an election to win that seat earlier this year and will face the same opponent in November. As for #WalkAway I’m not sure Candace Owens and some stock photos convinced many people. There’s also the fact that it’s mostly conservatives that are paying attention to it. As for #Blexit again, Candace Owens stance that racial bias in policing doesn’t exist isn’t really going to unite black people behind her. It’s also patently untrue. She’s deeply unpleasant, even attacked a murder victims family on social media for asking her to stop exploiting their grief.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 10:52 AM

    @Maurice O Neill: Well he certianly is rotund enough. I doubt his knees are load baring to take the weight of it i mean i live in a 2 story house. are you sure he can take the weight?

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    Aug 19th 2020, 11:43 AM

    @ahhhhh its: whats that?

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    Aug 19th 2020, 12:28 PM

    @Anthony McGovern: I thought it was a Wizard of Oz reference

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    Aug 19th 2020, 1:43 PM

    @Pat Kelly: if Biden gets in it’ll be make America a hole again.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 2:16 PM

    @Maurice O Neill: Dont put your house on Trump, we have enough homeless people here already!

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    Aug 19th 2020, 7:43 AM

    One candidate is delusional and the other has dementia .
    Can the u.s not find better people than this ?

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    Aug 19th 2020, 7:13 AM

    Conventional politics is bad enough, but at least it possesses some level of competence, and organisation. Biden has never been an inspiring candidate for President, but he at least understands what the Presidency is and how American politics works. Trump has shown himself to be unable to even talk about the Presidency convincingly. No matter what attacks Trump makes on Biden, Trump has demonstrated only one thing. That Trump is a confidence man who is inept at being a confidence man.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 7:18 AM

    @David A. Murray: Check the Stock Market there this morning for yourself

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    Aug 19th 2020, 7:29 AM

    @Maurice O Neill: same as what happened before the last crash? And the one before,

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    Aug 19th 2020, 7:33 AM

    @Maurice O Neill: The stock market is booming thanks to asset purchasing by the Fed. Nothing to do with the real economy.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 7:34 AM

    @Maurice O Neill: What about it? You invested billions in it or why do you care? Ever read a bit of something called the history in particular how the stock market bubble busted and the Great Depression happened in 1929??

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    Aug 19th 2020, 8:55 AM

    @The Boss: Fox news talking points memo waffle.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 10:23 AM

    @Maurice O Neill: And doesn’t that say it all as ordinary Americans are increasingly forced to use food banks and evictions are spiralling. Trump: I’m here for the rich!

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    Aug 19th 2020, 1:59 PM

    @Maurice O Neill: check the death numbers,check the debt level,check the level of upheaval of the population !!

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    Aug 19th 2020, 8:46 AM

    Four more years of Trump it is so. Plenty of blue voters not happy with Biden.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 11:50 AM

    @Sean Ryan: Plenty of moderates and independents despise Trump, no wonder he’s trying to stop them voting.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 8:12 AM

    Will ‘Sleepy’ Joe Biden now come out of his cave to contest the election? A wanna be one-term President just keeping the seat warm for Michelle Obama four years from now.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 11:54 AM

    @Wayne Walsh: Actually it’s Kamala Harris who will be in pole position in four years time.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 12:30 PM

    @Wayne Walsh: eh, there’s sort of a pandemic going on. Big crowds are not a good idea. Good thing Trump supporters are taking that advice on board. RIP Herman Cain

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    Aug 19th 2020, 12:52 PM

    @Dave O’Keeffe: unless of course u r a BLM protestor/rioter apparently the virus bypasses these justice warriors !

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    Aug 19th 2020, 4:02 PM

    @Al.Dunne: Or a gun nut who wants to intimidate elected officials as happened in Michigan where hundreds showed up to threaten the governor a couple of months back.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 5:25 PM

    @James Walsh: really that’s the best u have! Ignore the 78 days of riots in Portland and come back with 1 day a while ago these guys showed up re gun protest !
    Ignore the fact that locals in NY, Chicago, LA are asking for more police as crime/murder sky rocket
    Ignore the fact that Feds had to be deployed to protect federal building while democratic led city officials did nothing!
    People are leaving these cities in there droves , so less taxes will be paid which leads to cuts/hardship for who, in most cases the most needy in the community

    This is why Trump will win, but u will not doubt have your voter fraud excuses at the ready

    The left is eating itself and becoming more toxic as they do.

    Btw i am not a trump supporter or republican, more of a disappointed libertarian

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    Aug 19th 2020, 6:07 PM

    @Al.Dunne: PS it wasn’t a gun protest in Michigan. It was an anti-lockdown protest. The guns were irrelevant to their point, they were a show of force. Also, trust me, nobody is ignoring the fact that random anonymous soldiers showed up and beat the sh!t out of peaceful protesters. Last I checked buildings can’t move, so why were Feds assaulting people that weren’t at the building? So many twists to your nonsense.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 6:22 PM

    @Al.Dunne: there’s also a difference between a protest and the president asking people to sign a waiver to gather and hear him speak

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    Aug 19th 2020, 7:04 PM

    @Dave O’Keeffe: it was want random soldier’s, it was clearly marked federal officers ! U r right though building don’t move, thats why he was arrested for questioning outside the court house and let go 90 mins later!

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    Aug 19th 2020, 7:10 PM

    @Dave O’Keeffe: not sure what ur on about here !

    But I see Portland have finally declared a riot after they burnt Govt admin offices, seems after 83 days of trying to appease Antifa & radical BLM “peaceful protesters” the democrat led city is finally waking up to the fact these wanna burn it all down !

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    Aug 20th 2020, 12:45 AM

    @Al.Dunne: they were clearly marked? They had no identifying insignia. They had police patches but no names.

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    Aug 20th 2020, 12:48 AM

    @Al.Dunne: I have no idea what arrest you’re talking about. I’m talking about the hundreds that were assaulted, not arrested, just beaten but anonymous people in military gear patrolling the streets. If you’re talking about the guy dragged into an unmarked van then I don’t know much about that but it does seem like 1 minute or 90 minutes or 2 days isn’t the point when you’re taken against your will and have done nothing wrong. In saying that I thought that was in NY

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    Aug 19th 2020, 8:14 AM

    Yep, Joe will make a hole of it.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 12:34 PM

    @James Walsh: they had record employment b4 covid, does this not fit your narrative ?

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    Aug 19th 2020, 9:49 AM

    Team biden will push the mantra about healing America and bringing people together instead of sowing division, only thing is America was well rotten to the core ever before trump took office thanks largely to wall street owned con men like biden, trump was merely where it was always gonna lead..toxic as trump is he is not the disease but merely a symptom of it.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 11:41 AM

    Trump is the man !!!

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    Aug 19th 2020, 10:38 AM

    @matthew mc manus: Anything from after Sept 2018?

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    Aug 19th 2020, 12:13 PM
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    Aug 19th 2020, 12:46 PM

    @matthew mc manus: Sad part is, the hatred for Trump that the leftist media has perpetrated has turned so many, normally moderate people, into Trump deranged sheep. If only they could see how they were being duped by the 90% leftist media. From CNN, MSNBC and NY Times to the BBC, almost all european state run media. If you watch any of those on a regular basis, you are giving away your consent to see the world from an independent angle. They all support the big war machine and big government.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 1:47 PM

    @David OShea: All anyone has to do to intensely dislike Trump is to LISTEN to Trump.

    No one needs to watch anything beyond that.

    And honestly, if your only argument against people that intensely dislike him is that they’re duped sheep watching the MSM then that is pretty weak.

    But I understand why you say it. You cannot defend his words or his behaviour. You can’t defend his lack of a federal response to COVID. You can’t defend his petulance. You can’t defend his ramblings, his claims to be the “smartest guy in the room” who has the “best words”. His utter lack of empathy. How he sat beside a woman telling him her entire family had been murdered and the only time he seemed interested was when he found out she’d got the Nobel Peace Prize.

    Let’s face it, I could go on. The man is an appalling human being, he has demonstrated that continuely.

    The only thing you can do is accuse people that see his behaviour as disgusting and appalling is to accuse them of being “sheep”.

    But you’re convincing no one anymore. The gas lighting can only continue to succeed for a limited time and that time is up.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 1:53 PM

    @matthew mc manus: You’re aware Executive Orders don’t just “make things happen” right?

    Many of them have to go to Congress (if funding is required) for example. Others will be challenged in court if they’re potentially unconstitutional.

    Trump has control of the Senate, if he really wanted to pass meaningful legislation that HELPED people (not just his cronies) it would pass Congress.

    What about the Voting Rights Act that Mitch McConnell is refusing to allow to be voted on in the Senate and the 100′s of other bills he’s deliberately holding up?

    Trump uses Executive Orders because it’s he gets to parade in front of the cameras. It is all about him.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 6:18 PM

    @matthew mc manus: White House. Gov should have been your first clue that it’s a biased source and therefore not reliable as education material.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 8:30 AM

    My personal highlight of the convention https://youtu.be/c9nTxOMtbEI

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    Aug 19th 2020, 9:37 AM

    @Modern Irish Dad: That was unexpectidly brilliant.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 10:00 AM

    @Edmund Murphy: sometimes it pays to hit the link most times it does not lol

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    Aug 19th 2020, 10:31 AM

    @Modern Irish Dad: absolute cringe, looks like it was put together by first year college production team, almost like they don’t care about election
    As for “endgame” ripoff that was to sad to be funny !

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    Aug 19th 2020, 10:49 AM

    @Al.Dunne: Its hard to take it serious because of how it was put together, meanwhile https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/us/politics/trump-campaign-ads-dnc.html

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    Aug 19th 2020, 12:35 PM

    @Modern Irish Dad: Wow, I haven’t cringed so much since Ricky Gervais and The Office.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 1:11 PM

    @David OShea: It appears the whole DNC was very cringe worthy.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 6:26 PM

    @Modern Irish Dad: of course. But wait the Republican fire and brimstone. Warning about how Democrats will ruin the country if they’re given the chance. That doesn’t ring true for many as all they have to do is look around and then think back to 4 years ago and realise who oversaw the damage.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 10:54 AM

    Election not over … remember Americans are not the most informed people

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    Aug 19th 2020, 1:54 PM

    @Kevin50: There has never been a more motivated electorate in a long, long time.

    The 2018 turnout was massive.

    There is a reason Trump is trying everything to suppress voting. He knows there is a groundswell of opposition to him.

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    Aug 19th 2020, 2:23 PM

    what I and the whole world outside of the US will want to see, is will the Trumpet show up in front of a camera and concede defeat gracefully if Biden wins?

    Or will it it be a predictable bitter battle cry of ‘Fake Election Result!

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    Aug 20th 2020, 12:17 AM

    make a nation whole? the way the left got behind the present administration for the last 4 years.

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