# minimum-pricing - Tuesday 4 January, 2022
# Public Health (Alcohol) Act
# Public Health (Alcohol) Act
€7.10 is now the minimum price for a bottle of wine that has an alcohol content of 12%.
# minimum-pricing - Tuesday 12 October, 2021
# MINIMUM IMPACT
# MINIMUM IMPACT
Researchers examined crime statistics following the introduction of minimum unit pricing in Scotland.
# minimum-pricing - Wednesday 5 May, 2021
# Drinking
# Drinking
The measures will take effect in the Republic at the start of 2022, but it will be at least 2023 in the North.
# minimum-pricing - Wednesday 7 October, 2020
# Alcohol Bill
# Alcohol Bill
A minister has said it would risk “undermining the effectiveness” of minimum pricing if it’s not implemented at the same as Northern Ireland.
# minimum-pricing - Saturday 23 May, 2020
# Minimum Unit
# Minimum Unit
Health Minister Simon Harris has said the government’s preference is to bring the measure in at the same time as Northern Ireland.
# minimum-pricing - Wednesday 18 December, 2019
# Minimum Pricing
# Minimum Pricing
The government wants to introduce minimum pricing at the same time as the North.
# minimum-pricing - Thursday 1 August, 2019
# Survey
# Survey
That’s according to a survey conducted by Alcohol Action Ireland.
# minimum-pricing - Wednesday 19 June, 2019
# Minimum Unit Pricing
# Minimum Unit Pricing
Minimum unit pricing laws were introduced in May 2018.
# minimum-pricing - Wednesday 10 October, 2018
# Minimum Pricing
# Minimum Pricing
The legislation provides for changes such as minimum pricing and restrictions on advertising.
# minimum-pricing - Wednesday 3 October, 2018
# Finally Made It
# Finally Made It
The bill, first introduced in 2015, passed through the Dáil this evening.
# minimum-pricing - Wednesday 15 November, 2017
# Court Decision
# Court Decision
The ruling could have an impact on Ireland’s drinks regulations proposed in the Alcohol Bill.
# minimum-pricing - Tuesday 14 November, 2017
# Minimum Pricing
# Minimum Pricing
Simon Harris says he won’t be “holding off on it forever”.
# minimum-pricing - Sunday 12 February, 2017
# Counting The Cost
# Counting The Cost
Each unit of alcohol will be required to cost €1 under the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill.
# minimum-pricing - Thursday 24 November, 2016
# Health Benefits
# Health Benefits
Minimum pricing would have great health benefits, says the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
# minimum-pricing - Wednesday 23 November, 2016
# Teenage Drinking
# Teenage Drinking
A report by the OECD found that 16% of Irish teens admitted to being drunk on two occasions.
# minimum-pricing - Friday 21 October, 2016
# Time Gentlemen Please
# Time Gentlemen Please
Irish minimum pricing legislation is currently before the Seanad and will be debated next week.
# minimum-pricing - Wednesday 23 December, 2015
# Taxing Issue
# Taxing Issue
A European Court of Justice ruling says a tax should be introduced instead of minimum pricing .
# minimum-pricing - Saturday 12 December, 2015
# Prime Numbers
# Prime Numbers
Plus: How many selfies did Teresa Mannion say she posed for in Ballina?
# minimum-pricing - Friday 11 December, 2015
# Slabs Of Drink
# Slabs Of Drink
The independent senator said alcohol had now become “a human right” in Ireland.
# minimum-pricing - Wednesday 9 December, 2015
The government has announced that it will be setting the price of alcohol at €1 a unit.
# minimum-pricing - Sunday 26 April, 2015
# Behind The Bar
# Behind The Bar
Owning a pub and being in Leinster House – seeing the demise of rural Ireland from the outside and the inside.
# minimum-pricing - Wednesday 4 February, 2015
# Clampdown
# Clampdown
Is this the way to curb Ireland’s problem drinking?
# Alcohol
# Alcohol
There will also be regulation of sports sponsorship for the first time if new legislation agreed by the Government passes.
# minimum-pricing - Wednesday 3 September, 2014
# Budget 2015
# Budget 2015
Alcohol Action Ireland is also calling for the introduction of minimum pricing to target binge drinking.
# minimum-pricing - Wednesday 2 April, 2014
# Drink
# Drink
Minister of State at the Department of Health said conflicting interests of the drinks industry and health professionals cannot be reconciled when it comes to formulating public health policy.
# minimum-pricing - Monday 10 February, 2014
# New Research
# New Research
New research shows it would have negligible effects on low income moderate drinkers’ alcohol consumption and spending.
# minimum-pricing - Wednesday 23 October, 2013
# Alcohol Abuse
# Alcohol Abuse
But the government has kicked plans to ban alcohol companies from sponsoring sport into the long grass.
# minimum-pricing - Tuesday 15 October, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
Basic microeconomics teaches us that price controls are a bad policy decision and alcohol is no exception to the rule, writes Luke McGrath.
# minimum-pricing - Friday 11 October, 2013
# Your Say
# Your Say
GPs want the measure brought in as part of Budget 2014 to prevent people binge drinking. But would it work?
# minimum-pricing - Saturday 28 July, 2012
# Opinion
# Opinion
Proposals to hike the minimum price of alcohol are penalising moderate drinkers for the sins of those who have bigger problems, writes Aaron McKenna.
# minimum-pricing - Monday 7 March, 2011
# Alcohol
# Alcohol
A consultation will be launched today on setting a minimum price per unit of alcohol sold in Northern Ireland.
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