Page 2875 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 22 November 1989

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drinking this evening. We are all aware that every end of school session brings its share of tragedy - driving accidents and problems associated with introduction to under-age drinking and the rest. Under-age drinking is a serious concern in society, and it is a matter of great concern to me that well organised educational institutions allow this type of extensive venue visiting that can have nothing but the ineluctable deduction that there is going to be boozing going on.

These young boys and girls are probably ill prepared, after an arduous academic year, for the sheer physical demands of boozing for those hours. I am sure my legal colleagues in the chamber well know the sorts of problems that emerge, and have emerged in recent years, from a lot of these functions.

Those of us, like me, who have had three daughters grow into adulthood and some leave home would be well aware of the agonies we face constantly when our children are out into the early hours. Of course, one does not want to pontificate and talk about controlling our children, but the fact is that I have received a letter this evening from a mother who wants to know what I, as an Assembly person, can do about dealing with this large social problem, encouraged by the sort of mentality that proposes three different, good boozing venues for these kids. I believe we in this Assembly need to face up to that in the near future, perhaps in the Standing Committee on Social Policy.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Assembly adjourned at 5.12 pm

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