Ms Raylene McCaughey:

We bought fuel last Wednesday, which cost us €2.04 per litre. There is a high possibility that the station the Chairman referred to, could still have that fuel in its tanks. From Thursday, the day after we bought it, our sales dropped to below half. Ours is not the biggest or smallest in the country. We are on a national main route and so it is a busy enough service station. Sales halved because of the false advertisement. We could not take it down and we could not put it up any more than we did so we were taking a hit on it.

To clarify your comments, Chairman, the filling station to which you referred could very well have had a load of fuel that it had bought in at €2.04 still in its tanks, 12 days later, because sales just plummeted.