Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)

4:00 pm

Mr. Damian Duggan:

Yes, they were. I am 99% more likely to be robbed during the day than at night because of the security measures I take at night. Every single night we clear out the windows and clear out a lot of stock from the shop and put it into safes. When a jeweller dresses their shop in the morning, they are putting their stock back out. It takes an hour in the morning and three quarters of an hour in the evening. We are most vulnerable when we are filling safes, when they are open and everything is stacked nicely for whoever wants to come in and rob the shop. The professional will rob the shop during the day because it is far easier as he can get access to everything. Security systems are so good now that they find it more and more difficult to access a shop at night. With our steel roofs, we are virtually a safe.

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