Government may consider banning drink companies from funding sport in the future.
Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has insisted the Government may re-examine banning sports sponsorship in the future, even though it backed away from including a ban in legislation that will be passed before the election.
In the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill, the Government will introduce a 10 cent per gram of alcohol minimum price for alcohol – which will push the price of the cheapest bottle of wine available in an off-licence to €7.60.
Cheap drink promotions will be banned, while “happy hours” will be policed. Health warnings and calorie labelling will become mandatory, along with better public information in pubs and off-licences.
Sports grounds
Drink advertisements will be prohibited in sports grounds. However, the legislation does not include the prohibition of alcohol sponsorship of sports after tensions between various Government departments.
However, Mr Varadkar said the law will be reviewed in three years.
“It is one we will come back to. Ideally it would be one that is done on a transnational, European basis but we can’t always wait for the rest of the world to do these things.”
Source: Ciaran D'Arcy, The Irish Times, 10/12/15
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