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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: Tá cúpla ceist agamsa freisin. All the organisations are integral to the rural community and its viability. They also have to be commercially viable at some level. There is a constant tension between responsibility to the people they serve and the need to be commercially viable. Whenever credit unions are mentioned in this House people speak well of them. Everybody wants them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: The Deputy's time has concluded.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: We have hit the five minute mark.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: We have that question. I call Deputy Cannon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: As the Deputy has gone over time, I ask him to conclude.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: I have to stop the Deputy because we are two minutes-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: The representatives of AIB have ten minutes in which to answer all of the questions put to them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: I invite Mr. McLoughlin to respond on behalf of Bank of Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: I call on the Irish League of Credit Unions representative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: I call An Post to reply to the questions put to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: Deputy Robert Troy has asked that he might be able to ask some questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: I ask the relevant representative organisations to address these questions in a succinct fashion because we have other groups who are waiting to give evidence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: One of the key issues is that commercial viability is very important, but social responsibility is also very important. For a functioning society we need to ensure that people can have face to face interactions. If we rule out face to face interactions with each other, it will not be a society that anybody wants. There has been some frightening information put out in front of us but it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: We will now discuss the topic of what it takes to sustain a viable rural community with representatives of the Convenience Stores and Newsagents Association and Retail Excellence Ireland. Ba mhaith liom míle fáilte a chur roimh na finnéithe agus iad tagtha isteach chun é seo a phlé. I welcome the following witnesses representing the Convenience Stores and Newsagents...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: Tá mé buíoch as sin. Bhí sé an-suimiúl ar fad. I call the Convenience Stores and Newsagents Association to make its presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim míle buíochas as an gcur i láthair sin freisin. One of the major challenges to retail at the moment is the billions of euro migrating to the Internet annually. The problem for the country on the back of this is that €3 out of every €4 is being spent outside the jurisdiction, so it is being lost to the State. It seems to me that one of the projects the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: Will Mr. Jennings and his team respond to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe as sin. I appreciate the witnesses' presentations. One of the key elements of the presentations was that they were full of solutions, which is great because that is the whole purpose of this process. All the information the witnesses have given in their testimony today will be included in our document which we hope to have completed by the end...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (9 Nov 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 141. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the 2017 Famine Memorial Day will take place. [33927/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 70. To ask the Taoiseach if negotiations have commenced with the British Government over the future shape of British-Irish economic, travel and political relationships; and if so, the number of staff and their rank who have taken part in these negotiations. [32851/16]