Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage
2:40 pm
Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Given that this Bill is based on trying to clear the playing pitch, all of the responses suggest a fairy tale situation in which everyone gets on with each other and the big multiples treat suppliers with care and attention and it is all happy days on the farm. We know that is not the case. Ultimately, the person that produces the product should have more rights than the Revenue Commissioners because the Revenue Commissioners are probably chasing them as well for payment they did not get. I will not press the amendment but I will return to it on Report Stage. At some time, some country will say to the big multiples that the laws will be different and that it will give the small guy a chance. Why should we not be that country?
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