The government’s being urged to introduce a mandatory mediation service to help resolve disputes between shops and landlords.
Ennis-based retail lobby group, Retail Excellence will tell an Oireachtas Committee rent is the most significant challenge facing the industry as it emerges from Covid-19.
The representative group will also call for the further easing of restrictions on hospitality, which it says are having a knock-on impact.
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Managing Director of Retail Excellence, Duncan Graham, says the issue of rent is a huge problem:
