Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

How does one factor in the displacement factor that our internal retail economy is collapsing, as is evident from speaking to any high street retailer? In the displacement areas in particular, market towns are dying because we are all shopping online. Local retailers have gone out of business. Was the fact that shopping is being sent from places such as Manchester in a parcel and no one buys locally taken into account?