Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Effects of Black Economy: Discussion with National Federation of Retail Newsagents and Grant Thornton
3:10 pm
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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My suggestion would be that the Assembly in the North and the Oireachtas would work together on a particular price. The price would likely develop to be different in the North of Ireland to that in Britain but given there is not a land bridge between the two, it is not likely that people will drive to Britain to avail of the cheaper price. It would contain the price on the island and reduce the need for people to smuggle. In addition, we spoke with representatives of the Construction Industry Federation, CIF, earlier and it would start to level some of the inputs into construction, which would then make a level playing field more achievable North and South among different sectors of industry. That is the idea behind it.