Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael)

I move amendment No. 1:

In page 3, to delete lines 25 to 27 and substitute the following:

""grocery goods" means any household necessaries or food or drink for human consumption that is intended to be sold as groceries, and includes—".

The purpose of this amendment is to extend the scope of the proposed Act to the range of goods previously covered by the groceries order and to embrace all grocery goods sold in all grocery goods retailers. Amendment No. 2 aims to give effect to amendment No. 1 and to remove any uncertainty about the definition of "household necessaries" following the recent High Court decision of Mr. Justice Geoghegan in the case involving Dunnes Stores.