The Government is considering watering down a key recommendation in an expert report aimed at addressing the availability of cheap alcohol.
The national substance misuse strategy report called for a 2008 law compelling retailers to separate alcohol from other products to be enacted, replacing a voluntary code of practice.
It has emerged the Department of Justice is considering ignoring that call and may instead back a weaker option, involving statutory support for a code of practice.
Under this code any failure to separate alcohol would not be subject to criminal or civil sanction — as it would be under the 2008 law — but would merely form a basis for an objection to renewal of licence.
Critics said it would be a "nightmare" operating an enforcement system to police the new code.
Source: Cormac O’Keeffe, Irish Examiner, 14/05/12
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