No threat to outdoor dining despite licence confusion, insists Taoiseach

Taoiseach Michéal Martin engaging with vendors, staff, and members of the public while he visited Princes St in Cork City recently. Picture: Michael O'Sullivan /OSM PHOTO

People will not be fined for drinking outside pubs, and the Government will change the law, if needed, to ensure that does not happen, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said.

“There is no threat to outdoor dining,” he said.