Written answers
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Beef Industry
Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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556. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the establishment of an independent regulator to deal with allegations of price fixing relating to the beef industry could be carried out within the existing consumer protection agencies; and the expected annual cost of such a measure. [24209/17]
Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The State, through the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC), has an existing and well established infrastructure for oversight of competition matters and for dealing with allegations of anti-competitive practices or abuse of a dominant position. All operational programmes of the CCPC are entirely a matter for the Commission itself.
If any person has evidence of practices by any entity which involve price fixing or are contrary to competition rules he or she should bring that evidence to the attention of the CCPC.
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