Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

This is really a commercial decision for the operator. If it has an agreement with a local shop, it is often very important to the maintenance and sustainability of that shop. The operator must make a commercial decision as to whether it needs to put one next door to it if there are enough in one area and whether we need everybody in the street to be selling them. I think retailers would resist that. I understand from the perspective of pure competition the argument that anybody should be able to do it. I have an open mind on it but it will be a matter for the operator to determine how to sell the product.