Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The office will not have the power to require compensation, but a company can be prosecuted and fines can be imposed on it. There are no specific financial remedies for suppliers in the Bill. What the Bill provides is that the office can issue a compliance notice in the first instance to bring an end to an unfair trading practice. The failure to comply with the compliance notice is an offence which is prosecutable. The office can intervene, call out, and put compliance notices in place for UTPs if there is a practice happening that should not be happening and it must be stopped, and to prosecute, as appropriate, as well.