Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (Resumed)

2:45 pm

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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There is no doubt about that but many people do their initial research on the style and cost of the product online before they go into the store.

Do the witnesses not feel that the supply side of the construction industry is one of the major stumbling blocks to growth because credit is a problem for anybody who needs to get the necessary capital to develop a site? Planning permissions may be out of date in some cases because they provide for a type of housing unit that is not in demand and land banks are not necessarily accessible to people in the right areas.

The witnesses mentioned a card for fuel sales. How much of the money is going into the black market or shadow economy?