Donnelly under fire from publicans and backbenchers over 'crazy' new food recording rules

Donnelly under fire from publicans and backbenchers over 'crazy' new food recording rules

“Our guidelines reflect the Government measures when they're announced and that's what happened here,” a spokeswoman told the Irish Examiner. Picture: Julien Behal Photography

Health minister Stephen Donnelly is under fire from publicans and his own backbenchers over the introduction of “crazy” new rules requiring restaurants and pubs serving food to record all food orders and keep the information for 28 days.

Furious lobby groups and TDs compared the new rules to communist state monitoring in East Germany and George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984.

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