Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

No problem.

I am slightly concerned that the shipping companies, Stena Line and Irish Ferries, have not turned up here today. It was alluded to in the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs this morning that there is an allowance for support and collaboration of these companies to come together in a way that otherwise would be anti-competitive. There is a regulation but it seems that it should be overseen by the competition authority as to the level of that collaboration so that the gentlemen and the companies that are here today are not disadvantaged, and, ultimately, the stakeholders who use the service are at no disadvantage, and that there should be no collusion outside on what was proposed in relation to sailing schedules.