Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)

He also asked me to point out something which I have great pleasure in doing, namely, that the groceries order was the principal factor in driving price competition out of the grocery market for the period since 1987. It did this by creating mechanisms of discounts and rebates which allowed suppliers to fix minimum prices below which most grocery products could not be sold. Everybody knows that is the case.

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