Mr. Damian McDonald:

We have not got legal advice. There was legislation on the Statute Book before to deal with below-cost selling. There is minimum price legislation for alcohol. There is precedent for the Oireachtas to have views and make laws or regulations about pricing. There are other examples of it. As the president outlined, there is a valid question about whether this body could assess the cost of production. It could agree what standing costings are. It would not necessarily need to set up a group of people to establish the cost of production. Teagasc exists and there could be a validation process for its data. I do not think it would be that difficulty. We are trying to be constructive. The Minister and other Deputies have said that they are against a ban on below-cost selling. We understand that some points could be made about how consumers are struggling.