Mr. Jimmy Redmond:

I thank the Chairman and members for the invitation to appear before the joint committee. We share the same concerns as the previous delegates. The major concerns of 350 family owned businesses in the independent off-licence sector which provides 6.000 jobs are the increases in excise duty in the past few years which have been detrimental to our business. We also see problems arising from Brexit. We echo the concerns expressed by the other delegates about rates and so on. We are different in that we totally endorse and hope to see full implementation of the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015.