Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Photo of Matt CarthyMatt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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I shall move on because we are going around in circles when discussing this point. Everybody says, "if there is evidence of price fixing". I want to know whose job it is to find that evidence because the CCPC has told individual farmers that it is their job to provide the CCPC with evidence before the CCPC will even go and ask the meat processors for their opinion on the matter, never mind investigate.

Heads 8 and 9 deal with functions and I cannot see a reference to regulatory inspections. Will inspections be part of the remit of the new office?