Read the Minister for Finance Brian Lenihans comments when asked what action he will take, in view of the significant price and VAT difference in border areas and the consequent loss of business and employment in border counties.
 

Read what the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment had to say regarding a recent Dail Question on the VAT issue. She also comments that her department does not have any programmes or policies in place to specifically support the retail sector.

By HUBERT MURPHY Drogheda Independent
Wednesday December 03 2008
DROGHEDA Chamber of Commerce’s campaign to drop VAT has drawn countrywide attention, with president Patricia Rooney featuring on both national TV and radio.
The chamber website is urging everyone to email and postcard the Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan and the Minister for Trade Enterprise and Employment Mary Coughlan [...]

Jim Power of Friends First said this weekend that the minister must stop the madness and slash VAT by, at least, 2 per cent or 3 per cent. He said: “Irrespective of the cost of reducing VAT, even for six months say, it would bring people back to the shops and they would spend.
 “There is [...]

As Reported in the Irish Times, 28 November 2008.
The North’s First Minister Peter Robinson has said businesses north of the Border had every right to try and entice shoppers from the Republic.

As Reported in the Irish Times, 27 November 2008.
Reported by ELAINE EDWARDS
Businesses in Drogheda, Co Louth have begun a campaign to urge the Government to reduce the rate of value added tax (VAT) to 15 per cent to help them compete with retailers north of the Border.
The Drogheda and District Chamber of Commerce is leading [...]