Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We need an urgent debate in this House on the extraordinarily high price of groceries. The biggest daily issue facing households throughout the country is the extraordinarily high price of bread, milk, butter and eggs, the basic staples on which we all depend. Last weekend, the major supermarket multiples, in an almost synchronised fashion, reduced the price of milk overnight, on the same day and by practically the same amount. I am deeply suspicious as to how and why that happened. We know that the cost of producing goods is coming down but the cost to consumers is still extremely high.

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