Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for not reading his entire speech. The abridged version was more welcome and is appreciated. I welcome the fact regulations are being introduced in regard to suppliers and protecting them. My concern is that small retailers just cannot compete. When a supermarket can sell a litre of coca cola at a price at which the local retailer cannot buy it, this is a problem.

It is up to the industries themselves, the small retailers associations and the suppliers groups to encourage their members to use the instruments available to them when this law is introduced to tackle those uncompetitive and unfair practices. If they do not blow the whistle on such practices, there is nothing the Minister or anyone else can do about it. I thank the Minister for coming to the House to address this matter.