The Pub trade is dying - Minimum price for Alcohol?

asherbassad

I'm moving the fcuk back to Amsterdam. In supermarket Dirk Van Den Broek:

10 x 500ml cans of Warsteiner - €6.99

Crate of 24 bottles of Grolsch - €9.49


A fucking crate of beer there costs less than a pack of smokes in Ireland.

Mesrine65

Home brew FTW :cool:

2smiggy

asherbassad wrote: »

I'm moving the fcuk back to Amsterdam. In supermarket Dirk Van Den Broek:

10 x 500ml cans of Warsteiner - €6.99

Crate of 24 bottles of Grolsch - €9.49


A fucking crate of beer there costs less than a pack of smokes in Ireland.

but won't someone think of the children !!

suicide_circus

Come on EU court, daddy needs a new pair of crates!

KungPao

I wonder if men with vans will be doing trips to NI or further afield and doing a nice bit of Del Boy style business on their return...

I would certainly turn a blind eye.

This country pisses me off.

Odyssey 2005

KungPao wrote: »

I wonder if men with vans will be doing trips to NI or further afield and doing a nice bit of Del Boy style business on their return...

I would certainly turn a blind eye.

This country pisses me off.

I for one will most certainly go up. Veruks pontificating with matt Cooper now. Ashile

2smiggy

Minister Varadkar is squirming away on the Last Word at the moment , not making much sense. Admits he has had 'a bit' of lobbying from the drinks industry ....

Sh1tbag OToole

the groutch wrote: »

All this will do is lead to everyone flocking up north again for their cheap booze, taking millions of euro out of the economy.

The nordies are also bringing in a similar law I think. The powers that be are all conspiring to rip us off

ThisRegard

BattleCorp wrote: »

Do you think that the Government will let the Supermarkets pocket the difference between the old price and the new price? I doubt it.

It's not a tax, so that's exactly what's going to happen.

suicide_circus

ThisRegard wrote: »

It's not a tax, so that's exactly what's going to happen.

Thereby increasing VAT receipts...

ThisRegard

smash wrote: »

Except there's literally no benefit at all.

I think it'll have a positive affect on kids pooling their money and getting plastered.

Loughc

suicide_circus wrote: »

Thereby increasing VAT receipts...

Except the volume of Alcohol sales will drop, most likely greater than the price increase could cover, therefore it'll cause a decrease in VAT receipts.

Lights On

ThisRegard wrote: »

I think it'll have a positive affect on kids pooling their money and getting plastered.

Gone with the days of 10 people chipping in a 5er for a 50 bag, they'll be doing the same thing for slabs now :pac:

2smiggy

'How much do you drink on a night out minister ?'

squirm squirm squirm , he could not even answer that !

Odyssey 2005

Veruks admitting to drinking too much.
Being quizzed in the Dail bar. Slippery snakein his way out of it

ThisRegard

suicide_circus wrote: »

Thereby increasing VAT receipts...

If they wanted to rake money from this they would have increased duty, not set a minimum price.

RandomName2

the groutch wrote: »

All this will do is lead to everyone flocking up north again for their cheap booze, taking millions of euro out of the economy.

It will also have the unbelievable effect of having people like me saying

"you know, Fianna Fail weren't that bad."

I was willing to overlook your idiotic wasteful half-baked national healthcare plan for children, Varadkar, but I'm not going to forgive this bonkers, nanny-state, censorship based policy that will hurt the economy.

Odyssey 2005

RandomName2 wrote: »

It will also have the unbelievable effect of having people like me saying

"you know, Fianna Fail weren't that bad."

I was willing to overlook your idiotic wasteful half-baked national healthcare plan for children, Varadkar, but I'm not going to forgive this bonkers, nanny-state, censorship based policy that will hurt the economy.

Here here

VinLieger

RandomName2 wrote: »

It will also have the unbelievable effect of having people like me saying

"you know, Fianna Fail weren't that bad."

I was willing to overlook your idiotic wasteful half-baked national healthcare plan for children, Varadkar, but I'm not going to forgive this bonkers, nanny-state, censorship based policy that will hurt the economy.

Right there with you, this is the issue that will make me not vote FG

hmmm

Nanny state bollox - we can't even have a glass of wine without some politician/quango frowning at us.

If some people are drinking themselves into oblivion, why are the rest of us having to pay for it? Stop taking the easy route and go after these people directly.

We need a proper socially liberal/economically conservative party, but all we have is a ragtag of loony-left and interfering centrists.

hmmm

VinLieger wrote: »

Right there with you, this is the issue that will make me not vote FG

There isn't a party in the Dail that will not support this. FF will support it because they're stuffed full of publicans.

duffman3833

sure a 500ml bottle of coke is nearly €2 euro in places, having cheaper alcohol than a bottle of coke shouldn't be as 'kids' will see alcohol as a cheaper alternative, once they have someone to buy it for them

allimac

This is vote changer for me, sick to death of liberal lefty politicians telling me what I can and can't do and whats good for me. It's especially galling when those concerned are of foreign origin.

Mesrine65

allimac wrote: »

This is vote changer for me, sick to death of liberal lefty politicians telling me what I can and can't do and whats good for me. It's especially galling when those concerned are of foreign origin.

Come again

Deep Six

duffman3833 wrote: »

sure a 500ml bottle of coke is nearly €2 euro in places, having cheaper alcohol than a bottle of coke shouldn't be as 'kids' will see alcohol as a cheaper alternative, once they have someone to buy it for them

Kids can't purchase alcohol so that's a nonsense argument. An adult product that is aimed at adults and only purchasable by adults should not be price hiked for the sake of protecting a group that can't even buy it. Nanny state bull****.

allimac

Mesrine65 wrote: »

Come again

I guess you can read. I don't like foreigners telling me what to do

duffman3833

Deep Six wrote: »

Kids can't purchase alcohol so that's a nonsense argument. An adult product that is aimed at adults and only purchasable by adults should not be price hiked for the sake of protecting a group that can't even buy it. Nanny state bull****.

I don't mean like 10yr old or anything, young teens, or underage teens drinking which is increasing also. I also think that if you spend over 30-50 a week on booze in shops, maybe they have a problem. I like to go out every so often but these price changes wont have any effect really on people unless its more of a weekly or daily thing

Mesrine65

allimac wrote: »

I guess you can read. I don't like foreigners telling me what to do

Leo Varadkar is an Irish born, duly elected TD...

Who's the foreigner you speak of?

BattleCorp

duffman3833 wrote: »

sure a 500ml bottle of coke is nearly €2 euro in places, having cheaper alcohol than a bottle of coke shouldn't be as 'kids' will see alcohol as a cheaper alternative, once they have someone to buy it for them

The price of the 500ml bottle of coke is a different problem. We are being ripped off here. I was in Germany a few weeks ago. In the supermarket, a 1.5 ltr. bottle of coke was 69c.

Water is about €1 for a 500ml bottle here. That's €2 for 1 ltr. Think about it. €2 for 1 ltr. of water and it's about €1.31 for a litre of petrol. Crazy.

This increase in the price of alcohol will only aid the rip-off culture in this country and will do very little to stop people binge drinking.

Drink will become like the fags, where estimates are that 1 in every 4 packets of cigarettes has been smuggled into the country.

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allimac wrote: »

I guess you can read. I don't like foreigners telling me what to do

WTF sort of an idiotic, uneducated comment is that?