Independent retailers call for national freeze in commercial rates

The Retail Grocery Dairy & Allied Trades Association represents 3,000 independent food and convenience shops across Ireland

RGDATA director general Roseanne Regan. RGDATA has written to Ireland's local authorities calling for a freeze in commercial rates as businesses struggle with high operating costs. 

An organisation representing independent retailers has written to Ireland's local authorities calling for a freeze in commercial rates as businesses struggle with high operating costs. 

The Retail Grocery Dairy & Allied Trades Association (RGDATA) represents 3,000 independent family owned food and convenience shops across Ireland. RGDATA says independent retailers cannot absorb further cost increases and have also written to housing minister James Browne to push for a temporary national cap on increases in commercial rates and other local authority charges.