Mr. Vincent Jennings:

This point relates not so much to Mr. Redmond's business because his problem with pop-up shops is probably a bit different but we suffer from pop-up shops. These shops are becoming more sophisticated. They come in at Hallowe'en time and Christmas time and absolutely suck all of the business out of that occasion. We are there 52 weeks a year and are paying our rates, yet we get no facility from the local authority. We make contact with it but these proprietors are not listed and walk away after a six-week period, leaving rates bills behind them. However, they will have taken an enormous amount of money. There needs to be a clear path for ratepayers to have direct access to the local authority to make them aware of this and for action to be taken. We cannot deal with our customers in a high brow fashion, and we feel that we are customers of the local authority but we are not getting a hearing.