Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 May 2026

Public Accounts Committee

Competition and Consumer Protection Commission – Financial Statements 2024

2:00 am

Mr. Brian McHugh:

We would publish guidance, as we have done in competition, for how that would be calculated. Effectively the goal is that the fine should match whatever the breach of the law was. Where a huge amount of consumers suffered, and where the detriment that they suffered was significant, the fine would be proportionate to that.