Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In the previous letter he sent, he declined to attend on the specific day in question, rather than refusing outright to come before the committee. Following receipt of the documentation about alleged collusion and price-fixing, Deputy Thomas Byrne sent it to the to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, which has investigated the matter independently of us and concluded that there was no evidence to support the allegations. The State body charged with examining the allegations has done that. Nevertheless, we may still have questions to ask and, even if there was no collusion, the issue of pricing is relevant to us. We will put it on the work programme.