Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This is something I have considered. Equally, this committee engaged with all the stakeholders it met and put together its own report. One of the recommendations the committee made to me was that we should set the fines at €10 million and 10% of overall turnover. I accepted that fully as one of the recommendations from this committee. I believe it is proportionate and appropriate here and that we should stick with it. What I am urging is that we stick with what the committee itself recommended to me and which I fully accepted.