Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The new office can make reports and recommendations to the CCPC and my Department. This is about having an office that can trace and assess what happens in the market, assess movements in the international market, into which we sell and that determines our price, and then being able to call out and put pressure in terms of what happens there.

Obviously cartel-like behaviour is a criminal matter and something for which clear evidence is needed. Mr. Kinsella will discuss that point.

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