Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Many of us have read the recent report of the National Competitiveness Council, titled Costs of Doing Business in Ireland 2018. Professor Peter Clinch of the council spoke recently to the Committee on Budgetary Oversight. The report makes for fairly dismal reading. Regarding the ECN+ directive to empower competition authorities of member states to be more effective enforcers of the Internal Market, Competition and Consumer Protection Commission chairperson, Isolde Goggin, recently asked that additional powers be given to the CCPC. Are we in the process of doing so? Will these powers be brought forward or have some of them already been brought into effect?

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