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:

Absolutely. We do a huge trade after Christmas in adjusting rings and watches that are bought online. That is one positive, but one does not make an awful lot of money out of it and it is very time consuming, but we do it because it is trade that we need. It is very disheartening when one sees the amount of trade one is losing on regular customers. When Dad was alive we used to watch the people from the local ladies' clubs getting onto buses and going across the Border to buy all their items and then they would come back and ask us for a battery for something or whatever else. We saw that every year for many years. It is not as bad now but people drive up now instead of getting buses, but that is the way it is.

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