Brendan Ryan (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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20. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps she has taken to date to transcribe directive 2014/104/EU on antitrust damages actions into Irish law; and if she will confirm that the directive will be fully transcribed by 27 December 2016 in order to ensure that Irish businesses will be able to fully recover damages suffered as a result of infringements of EU competition law such as price fixing. [33014/16]

Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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Some provisions of Directive 2014/104/EU on certain rules governing actions for damages under national law for infringements of competition law provisions already exist in national legislation or in existing court rules. The other provisions of the Directive that need to be transposed are being addressed in the transposing legislation and by amending certain court rules.

My Department is working closely with the Office of Parliamentary Counsel, the Department of Justice and Equality and the Courts Service to ensure the Directive will be transposed by the deadline of 27 December 2016.