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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We will do that. Returning to the earlier point about the grey and black, this is the difficulty. Someone in a contract with a retailer or another body for a long time who has been forced to have these grey practices included in the contract is in a weak position to say he or she does not want that anymore. Is that not the case? The purpose of the greying of those should be that I as an individual or a company can go to this new body, say something is in my contract that I do not think is appropriate, and the office can examine the matter, judge that there is no rationale for it to be in the contract and instruct the retailer to remove it. Will that be the position?