Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

The Minister of State should be aware that I know what is contained in the legislation. The Government is proposing to impose extra penalties on those who abuse competition law. In addition, it is proposed to change in certain cirumstances the burden of proof where infringements, or alleged infringements, of competition law have taken place in order that it will be somewhat easier to prosecute the people concerned and to make it possible to remove directors who have been found guilty of infringing competition law and disbar them from sitting on company boards.

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