Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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I accept that. It is not Mr. Godfrey’s fault; it is his job to enforce the law and the law is problematic in terms of not actually protecting people at all. Mr. Godfrey said people are free to make a choice but is there really a choice if, let us say I am a consumer and I am driving around trying to find petrol but petrol everywhere is extremely expensive? What choice do I really have, as a consumer?