Lifting low-cost ban would ‘fuel drink abuse’

Caroline O’Doherty

The move, signalled as a possibility by Enterprise Minister Micheal Martin as part of a review of the Grocery Order, would also put him on a collision course with the Department of Health which he headed until last year.

Mr Martin will tomorrow announce a two to three-month period of public consultation on a range of consumer issues including the scrapping of the order which has been in place for 18 years.