Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 February 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2021

Ms Clare McNamara:

My colleague has just pointed me to the 2014 Act. It would be the authorised officer of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission on production of a warrant issued to him or her authorising that officer to exercise powers. I do not know whether that is a court-issued warrant. I will have to look into that.

Under existing legislation, an authorised officer has the powers under a warrant issued to him or her. We do not envisage that changing.

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