Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 June 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Reopening the Economy: Supports for Business
Mr. Danny McCoy:
I do not know. That is the answer to that question. Again, this goes to the heart of what we have been calling for because the reopening will reveal the scale or the type of problem we are dealing with now. For instance, in the case of alcohol consumption, the manufacturing and production data tells us that alcohol sales and consumption in Ireland were down during the pandemic. There are different channels through which people are consuming products now. We need an assessment of whether these are new channels that will persist or whether behavioural change will come but without reopening, we are in a completely artificial period. I do not know. That is the answer.
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