Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

I want to ask about two matters. In the budget there was a proposal to merge a number of quangos and State agencies. That gave rise to the need for 15 separate pieces of amending legislation. Regarding one proposed merger between the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency, this morning I saw that the chief executive of the NCA was amazed to find that prices in the North were 60% higher than those in the South, and that——

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