Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Ms McCoole is saying the focus is to change the habit we have generated in this country for many years of the weekly shop, whereby people go out and fill the trolley and probably end up with a large proportion of it wasted. As regards other countries, someone who lived in France told me everybody shops every day for that day. They just buy what they need for that day. That is the culture there, whereas here we seem to have the culture, probably retail-driven, of getting the big shop, the weekly shop. One of the issues is to try to get away from that. Naturally, there will be resistance to that from, in particular, the multiples and the large stores because that has been a gravy train for them. What level of engagement is there with those chains and large outlets?