Alex Cleland

They have absolutely no idea how to control it.

Every single business owner across Ireland can see exactly where money has been wasted in the public service.

And the government are...

Either naive or just completely stupid.

It's one or the other.

Okay, if they're not wasting billions on public service, they can reduce the desire and the need for taxes.

If they've reduced the need for taxes, it makes it easier to keep prices down because you're not pushing prices up just to cover the cost, the tax costs, the cost of employment, cost of energy.

So there's no need for the tax level that there is at the minute.

So if you reduce the cost of expenditure in the government, then you're reducing the need for tax.

Therefore, you're reducing the possibility or you're increasing the possibility of reducing prices.

So you have to go to the source rather than going to like retailers get absolutely shafted.

They say, oh, they're ripping people off and the rest of it.

The fact of the matter is the only place the consumer sees the retail prices on the shelves in stores.

Other than that, they don't see how much it costs to get that product onto the shelf.

I mean, if it was a case that the retailers or any other business were ripping people off, why are so many closing down?

OK, last year, my wage bill went up 100,000.

This year, I had to make massive cuts with regard to the staff levels, the working hours of my staff, because obviously there was the auto-enrolment thing, this My Future Fund that was forced on us.

The pension.

The minimum wage went up, the pension thing, yeah.

The minimum wage went up.