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Conversations with local businesses here in the city and in towns around the county have conveyed to me a growing level of frustration and negativity about the future of retail.

ISME has written to the Taoiseach to highlight issues around the impact of the proposed 12.4% increase on the National Minimum Wage (NMW) in 2024, noting that the measure will create a financially unsustainable situation for many small and medium businesses across Ireland.

ISME has this week written to the Taoiseach to highlight issues around the impact of the proposed 12.4% increase on the National Minimum Wage in 2024, noting that the measure will create a financially unsustainable situation for many small and medium businesses across Ireland. The letter from the Chair of ISME, Marc O’Dwyer, follows representation from many of ISME’s Association members and affiliated trade bodies.

Employers could have a fight on their hands to hold onto their staff this year – six in ten (60percent) workers could potentially change jobs in 2023 and almost one in three (30percent) are definitely considering it.

The Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Leo Varadkar, has received Government approval to accept the recommendation from the Low Pay Commission to increase the National Minimum Wage to €10.50 per hour from January 1 2022.

Local Minister, Deputy Denis Naughten, has called on Dublin based companies looking to expand to consider creating jobs in Ireland’s Heartlands which offers employees a better lifestyle with lower costs, while remaining accessible to Dublin.

Minister for the Diaspora and International Development Ciaran Cannon has said that this week’s increase in the minimum wage to €9.55 per hour will give a boost to lower paid workers in Galway.

The Low Pay Commission is recommending an increase to the minimum wage of 30 cents, bringing it to €9.55 per hour.

New data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) shows that average weekly earnings increased by 2.7 per cent up to the third quarter of this year.

Galway West TD Derek Nolan has said that the recommended increase to the minimum wage is about making work pay. Speaking about the Low Pay Commission’s recommendation of increasing the minimum wage by 50c to €9.15 per hour, Deputy Nolan said: