Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

There is nothing stopping any one of them from making a transfer in the morning without the slightest difficulty. It only takes a single phone call. We have a successful, competitive market that is delivering lower prices because we are forcing competition through. That is what works. Once we start moving away from that we are doing customers a disservice because we are going back to a protected monopoly in which the main suppliers crowd out everyone else and keep prices high in the medium to long term. That is not in the customer's interest or the country's interest. What we are doing is working. I do not think the Deputy opposite has an alternative that would not destroy the competitive process.

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