Mr. Padraic McElwee:

Yes. We have had that feedback and it is a challenge but it is a business challenge. Our role is to equip our businesses to meet that challenge. The Deputy alluded earlier to the Look for Local campaign. The feedback we got from an evaluation of that campaign is that it supported approximately 69% of respondents to buy from their local businesses. In a way Covid-19 highlighted the competitiveness of the services our local businesses can offer. I had a view prior to Covid-19 and I hold it even more strongly now that the trading online voucher is about giving our local businesses the tools to compete in a virtual world with the likes of Amazon. For a period during the pandemic it was easier to buy from Amazon than it was to buy online from a local business. As the Deputy will know, most of our young people operate in a digital world. Equally, to be fair to some of the large players, they provide quite good training supports to our small businesses to equip them with the necessary tools and skills. I have seen some small businesses become digital exporters and they are starting to win business form overseas. I agree it is a challenge. We will work with them and I am confident our really good businesses will meet that challenge.