Joe O'Toole (Independent)

At a time when Government is slow to look at issues like price controls or involving itself in that area, the only other device we have is the Competition Authority. There are now criminal investigations in this area, but the authority does not have sufficient resources. Money raised by the CAB should be used to fund investigations by the Competition Authority, which has only three detectives to cover the entire country. This is a bad joke and the cartels are running rings around the authority's operatives. There are no party political views on this.