Mr. Seán Murphy:

Yes. In response to the question about drilling down, by our engagement with them, face to face with the compliance officers and head purchasers, we go through the regulations to see what was required, such as, whether there were promotional costs, wastage, shrinkage, written contracts. We would expect that written contracts would exist but, as is emerging now, some large suppliers do not give a written contract because they are happy with their own terms and conditions. Some small suppliers do not provide a written contract, either because they have not got around to it or because they are uncertain as to what it actually means. We have put the regulated grocery goods undertakings, RGGUs, under pressure because they are required to have those written contracts. They will ask us and we have made every effort to do so but we cannot get them. We have to be sure they have made reasonable efforts. The compliance inspections are not just an annual event. They are rolling. That is part of our strategic framework.

This is not the first time that we engage with traders at this level. For years we have been engaged in retail price inspections. We have been coming in the front door for many years, now we are coming in the back. It is in all the markets in that sense too.