Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The office has been set up for a particular purpose, to ensure there is transparency and oversight of the unfair trading practices directive. It would be erroneous to require in law that it should follow up on every issue it regards as frivolous, having assessed them. Its legal obligation is to follow up on any complaint that it assesses as having merit. One of its key functions will be to properly assess, follow up on and apply the full force of the law to any complaint it gets that has any merit at all. If the opposite was the case and the office had a legal obligation to follow up on every case, there would be nothing to stop people from bringing it down with-----