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Parties support minimum pricing for drink

The majority of the Oireachtas health committee has backed proposals to introduce minimum pricing for alcohol.

The recommendation — supported by all parties except Sinn Féin — will be a boost to junior health minister Roisín Shortall as she tries to convince the Cabinet to back the radical measure.

Sinn Féin thinks the Government should use taxation if it wants to increase prices.

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Source: Cormac O'Keefe, Irish Examiner, 24/01/2012

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