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Published 14:55 15 Mar 2016 GMT
Updated 18:54 15 Mar 2016 GMT
Commenting on the figures, Foley said: “It is useful to put the Irish figure into an international perspective. The latest OECD health statistics reports an OECD average alcohol consumption for 2013 or latest year of 8.8lpa, Ireland in this database is measured as 10.6lpa.
“The OECD average has been identified as a policy target for Ireland.
“However, this is not necessarily appropriate. The OECD database includes far distant and culturally specific countries such as Turkey and Israel with very low alcohol consumption around 2.6 and 1.4 lpa respectively and several other countries with low-ish consumption such as Canada, Chile, Japan, Mexico and USA.
“The non EU countries in the database have an average consumption of 7.1 lpa.
“The 21 EU members included in the OECD database have an average consumption of 9.9 compared to the 10.6 recorded in the database for Ireland.
“Ireland is not widely out of line with this. These figures exclude unrecorded consumption which can be relatively high in some countries."
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