Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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1376. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of establishing and running a new department within the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission that would perform the function of a regulator to deal with allegations of price fixing in the sale of meat and other agricultural produce (details supplied). [38493/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission is within the remit of the Department of Business, Jobs and Innovation, which has indicated that any information on allegations of price fixing should be referred directly to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, which is the independent statutory authority responsible for the enforcement of national and European competition law in the State.