Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Business Closures and Job Losses: Discussion with National Off-Licence Association

2:30 pm

Mr. Andrew Kinsella:

Clearly, we are a different sector to the pub business but we have it in common with publicans, at least, when I was in the sector, that many of them are still small independent businesses.

On Senator Quinn's point, arguably, the move to the off-trade in the beginning was down to lower prices and the move to lower prices further down the scale is down to the multiples. Much of it is price driven. Clearly, there is a social and health aspect. I guess it is a multifaceted problem. However, they all are connected. The only point we are making is that there is not legislation in place which supports those large businesses to the same extent across other sectors and other categories, and its impact probably hits harder. It hits pubs but hits us harder.

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