Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 53:

In page 81, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following:"(2) Subject to a grocery goods undertaking choosing to enter into a contract, relevant grocery goods undertakings shall have a contract with a grocery goods undertaking for the sale or supply of grocery goods.".

The purpose of this amendment is to ensure that anybody who wants a contract has the legal protection of getting a contract. Unfortunately, it seems to be practice that in many of these relationships the purchaser and supplier do not necessarily have a contract. The relationship develops informally and then it gets bad. If a supplier decides not to have a contract, that is a case of the supplier waiving its right, but it would be agreed and accepted that a contract would exist unless otherwise stated by the supplier.