Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent)

I support the concerns expressed by Deputy Dowds on this issue. A few people who make gravestones and from whom I used to buy granite told me how unlevel the playing field has become in terms of their having to compete with the Dublin Cemeteries Committee. These people have set up a substantial stone business and they supply the stone that goes around a grave and the headstone. Unfair conditions are at play. One man in this business has had to lay people off because he is not able to compete with those other people in this business. The situation that prevails is unfair and it needs to be examined.

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