Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Let us say a farmer or an individual reports to the new office for fairness and transparency, and shows that on a given day 15 separate factories offered prices for beef that were within 1% of each other. What would the office do with that information? How would it identify whether the activity is price fixing on a grand scale or, as I have called it, cartel-like behaviour? What impact and ensuing actions would follow a complaint of this nature?