Aisling Dolan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is the time of year when people are doing their Christmas shopping. I want to ask everybody to consider shopping and staying local. We are always going online. Many people are using websites such as Amazon. We should think about supporting our favourite retailers at home.

We are very lucky to haveshopballinasloe.ie. which is doing great Christmas raffles to try to help the local area to prepare for Christmas lights and get the town ready, even though we are in lockdown. I ask everyone to consider supporting their local area. Many businesses are giving out prizes and holding raffles. It is important to support our shops as they are going into the Christmas period, a time when they usually make so much money.