Mary Ann O'Brien (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will make a final point, after which I promise I will sit down. The dreadful horsemeat scandal occurred at the beginning of the year. Regardless of whether one likes my opinion, I could feel the pain. We will never get to the bottom of the situation. When retailers are under pressure to produce ever more cheaply, for example, when footfall demands the cheapest burgers, that pressure will collapse on the supplier. Look at what happened.

I agree with Senator Clune on alcohol as a creator of footfall. Regardless of whether we like it, cheap prices are presented in giant adverts in Sunday newspapers to get people to walk into shops. Alcohol must not be continued to be used as a way of creating footfall.