The government's being urged to introduce a mandatory mediation service to help resolve disputes between shops and landlords.
Retail Excellence, which is due before an Oireachtas Committee today, says rent is the most significant challenge facing the industry, as it emerges from Covid-19.
The representative group will also call for the further easing of restrictions on hospitality, which it says is having a knock-on negative impact.
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