Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 May 2014

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage

1:15 pm

Photo of Dara CallearyDara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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The Minister accepts the need for consultation. We can move into dispute very quickly - more quickly than we may have thought. Will the process of consultation happen before the Bill goes to the Seanad so that we will not have to return in two years' time to deal with the fallout when small producers of garden plants are being hammered by their major buyers without the protection we could bestow on them under the Bill?