Question remains – are drink-sellers qualified?

IRISH Vintners’ Federation CEO Pádraig Cribben (Letters, September 1) did not address my point that the people who dispense alcohol in Ireland are not suitably qualified to do so because they do not hold a recognised pharmaceutical qualification (Letters, August 27) .

If the Responsible Sale of Alcohol programme that Mr Cribben highlighted contains a suitable qualification for the 11,000 people who work in the trade, then I stand corrected.

If not, then this programme is a waste of time and money and is just another smokescreen to mask the so-called respectable sale of a lethal drug.