Mr. Richard Shakespeare:

Deputy Bruton's first question was about the shift online. There was a 45% shift to online trading but we are focusing on the experience of city centre shopping and town centre shopping. In the long term, it is all about creating a more liveable city and people are talking about the 15-minute city. We have seven of the eight national cultural institutions within Dublin and that is an area on which we will need to focus. The question of what does city shopping offer people might be asked. The retailers have been preparing for this online shift and all we can do is try to facilitate it by improving the experience in the public realm and how people experience their city. In Dublin we have the living city initiative, which is encouraging people to live over the shop. That is based a particular area in the city. It relies on tax relief for individuals who own such properties to get them to build over the shop, as you might say, and get them to create those living spaces. We have had limited success in that but to try to attract people into that, it might be more help for it to be more about grants than tax relief.