Mr. Mick O'Dwyer:

I will be brief. I am the regional transport manager for Musgrave Retail Partners Ireland. We supply SuperValu and Centra stores, and we are an example of an operation that transits the North to get to Donegal. We service 16 Centra stores and nine SuperValu stores in that region alone. We are unique in that we ship anywhere between 40 and 50 trailer loads of stock up that road every week, with approximately 100,000 cases of stock, both chilled and ambient, into stores in locations that may not be serviced by any other retailer. We are also unique from the point of view of the number of stores we have in the region, the stock we are sending up the road and how often we are going there. The effect of the UK road levy charge is the cost in which our operation has to take on to continue to supply those stores in that region.