A Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist has said that taxes on the off-licence sector should be increased.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Dr Bobby Smyth, a board member of Alcohol Action Ireland, said that per capital alcohol consumption is still 50% above what are considered healthy levels.
He said: "It would be great if the Department of Finance, which has come up with a whole bunch of additional taxes for beleaguered citizens, could come up with some mechanism for extracting more tax revenue from the off-trade sector.
"Despite the fact that drink costs €3.7bn in alcohol-related harm, we only take €2bn in tax from drinkers, so it does seem odd that as a society we seem unwilling to ask drinkers to pay for the costs of the consequences of their own behaviour."
Source: RTE.ie, 23/08/2013
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