Results 461-480 of 6,944 for speaker:Michael McNamara
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)
Michael McNamara: What about in the food and grocery sector?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)
Michael McNamara: So there were no successful prosecutions in the sector in the period 2010 to 2012, inclusive. Will Mr. Kenny indicate the number of unsuccessful prosecutions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)
Michael McNamara: So there were none at all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)
Michael McNamara: Nothing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)
Michael McNamara: Does this mean that everything which has been said is nothing but hot air, particularly in the absence of successful or unsuccessful prosecutions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)
Michael McNamara: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)
Michael McNamara: I have a supplementary question but I will be happy to pose it at the end of proceedings.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)
Michael McNamara: If you want, Chairman, you can go to the witnesses now and then I will ask my supplementary questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)
Michael McNamara: In regard to milk.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)
Michael McNamara: Yes. We have heard that three retailers control 80% of the Irish market. We know the agency raided the Irish Farmers Association offices, which at the very least represents producers who are the victims, along with perhaps consumers. I do not want Mr. Kenny to name people but can he confirm that the authority raided the offices of any of the three major retailers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)
Michael McNamara: Who are the parties involved?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)
Michael McNamara: I am not asking Mr. Kenny to name the party. I am asking him to say that the authority at least looked into one of the three major retailers and that the IFA was not the only office it raided, for the credibility of the Competition Authority if nothing else.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)
Michael McNamara: We are aware of that and we are still asking questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)
Michael McNamara: We are aware of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)
Michael McNamara: Five retailers have over 90% of the market share of the business. I am not asking Ms Goggin to name names, I am asking her to say whether any of those five retailers have even been visited by Competition Authority officers. We know that the IFA has been raided.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)
Michael McNamara: All right. I presume a search warrant is a matter of public record.
- Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)
Michael McNamara: Deputy Dooley knows all about bankers.
- Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)
Michael McNamara: Any day I am on a different side from Deputy Dooley.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations Issues (18 Sep 2013)
Michael McNamara: 63. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it is intended to continue to support the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Integrated Border Control project in the Islamic Republic of Iran, aimed at strengthening the drug interdiction capacity of the Iranian Anti Narcotics Police in view of the fact that at least 314 persons were executed there in 2012, many...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2013)
Michael McNamara: Is the Deputy in favour of the extension of this measure or against it?