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

This goes to the heart of our differences as to what the scope of the regulator could be. The difficulty is that, rather than duplicating any work, this body would be the first to engage proactively with anti-competitive actions in the agrifood sector because the CCPC has not done so to date, to be frank. This committee has heard a substantive amount of evidence in that regard from the farm organisations, the people who are at the coalface. This amendment seeks to ensure that the body, whether we use the Gaeilge or the Béarla version of the regulator's name, has to be able to address anti-competitive actions in the agrifood chain in order for it to meet the expectations farmers have put on the body to be able to bring fairness into the sector.

I will press the amendment.