Mr. Jim Curran:

Our discussion is on businesses locally. Our sector contributes more than €2 billion to the local economy. That is creating jobs and it has a multiplier effect. If everything that we are talking about here today negatively affects smaller businesses such as pharmacies and jewellers it will have a wider effect across the board in terms of employment and sustaining local economies, in particular in smaller rural areas. As my colleagues said here today, it is the smaller rural pharmacies and those in disadvantaged areas that are struggling the most but they are the big contributors to their local areas. There are no post offices or banks locally. The fear we have is that-----