Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 July 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion

Mr. Arnold Dillon:

There certainly were concerns last year when the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission had a role over the grocery code, and in parallel the unfair UTP regime was being set up. With the revoking of those, I do not envisage there being an issue in terms of an overlap of the current mandates of this new authority versus the role of the CCPC. There are probably quite clear lines around competition law that the CCPC has oversight over and the UTP rules that the currently interim authority and the new office will have responsibility over into the future.