Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----working group. Under its auspices, three working groups were convened last year to drive actions in the retail forum work programme, the Future of Retail, which is effectively what the Deputy is talking about. These include one examining the town centre first policy and the night-time economy. The focus is on considering whether the supports are relevant, the policy implementation of the town centre policy and the report from the night-time economy task force. The second working group is around digitalisation and skills, focusing on driving the digitisation of the sector and working to support skills development in terms of moving to selling online, as well as complimenting what the retail sector is doing on the main streets. The third working group is on the green transition. There is, therefore, a structure in place. I would be interested in hearing feedback as to whether the retail sector thinks this structure is sufficient. I am not saying I am ruling anything out, but I would like to try to work the structure that exists to get reports and recommendations back that we can then act on, rather than setting up a new structure that duplicates what is happening already in this regard. Again, this is a subject I would happily come back to the committee to talk about if people think this is not sufficient.