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

Photo of Paul DalyPaul Daly (Fianna Fail)
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If somebody perceives a cartel in an agricultural supply chain, whatever the product might be, and I do not want to name individual areas because that can lead to outside debate, it will bypass the new body and still will go to the CCPC. Even though it is in the agriculture sector and has almost definitively been identified in layman's terms that it is 100% obvious there is a cartel, it will go to the CCPC. Does Mr. McHugh not think this will complicate matters as this new body is agrifood-related? That was my question. How does Mr. McHugh see that situation evolve? Were I to go to the CCPC with blinding evidence of a cartel within the agrifood sector, what is the CCPC's relationship with this new body in dealing with that? Mr. McHugh is telling me that the CCPC has to deal with that.