Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have some specific questions on the future framework. I already made a point to Mr. Quinn on the nature of the framework models to which we are seeking to evolve. If we are in an environment with many buyers and suppliers, that is clearly inefficiency. I would argue there is also inefficiency in a model where there are many buyers and only a single supplier. We have talked about this previously in terms of the SME community. If we end up with only a single supplier of a good nationwide even for a country of our size, that is as inefficient as a model with thousands of buyers and thousands of suppliers.