Mr. Brian McHugh:

The Deputy spoke about investigating a complaint that there has been a breach of competition law. The body does not have the power to investigate a complaint that there has been a breach of competition law. It will have the power to investigate UTPs and potential breaches of UTPs, and rightly so. However, as I mentioned previously, to investigate a complaint of a breach of competition law means potentially one will be giving a file to the DPP so one needs the resources and expertise, equivalent to the Garda Síochána, to be able to do that. Those are very specific skills, and this new office quite rightly is not empowered to do that.