Tackling cost of doing business ‘would cut food prices’

TACKLE the high cost of doing business in Ireland and food prices will fall, a group representing 4,500 independent grocers told an Oireachtas Committee yesterday.

“If you bring down the cost of running a grocery business then the cost of food will fall,” RGDATA Director General Tara Buckley told the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise and Small Business.

The Oireachtas committee is currently investigating why Irish grocery prices are amongst the highest in Europe.