The decision is atemporary, first step while the Alcohol and Tobacco Trade and Tax Bureau, or TTB, continues to consider final rules on alcohol labels.
The minister then turned to the matter of the decision taken for a further temporary change closure of the City Hospital emergency department from 1 November 2011.
Although the 2009 decision was adopted 8-1, it was widely seen as atemporary compromise between the court's conservative and liberal wings, allowing Congress breathing room to amend the act before another challenge was filed.
Defending its decision, the council said the sculpture had been considered temporary and Venice had a fine record of welcoming and exhibiting modern art.
He was making a statement to the assembly following the decision of the Belfast Trust to close the emergency department of the Belfast City Hospital on atemporary basis.