David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank our guests for being here and for their informative and disturbing presentations. I asked colleagues for this meeting - there will be several more on this issue - to be held because we have heard reports of this traumatic, important and damaging issue. The witnesses have highlighted and reinforced that. I thank them for being here.

Ms Buckley and others referred to under-reporting. Is there an estimate of the scale of under-reporting? Has research been undertaken on the cost to businesses – retailers and shopkeepers – of shoplifting and theft that is going on at the moment? Do the witnesses have figures in those regards?