Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour)
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1832. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when legal powers to the An Rialálaí Agraibhia to compel businesses to provide it with price and market information will be given; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47232/25]

Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael)
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I am fully committed to ensuring that An Rialálaí Agraibhia is equipped with the necessary powers to adequately fulfil its function in providing more transparency to all stakeholders along the agrifood supply chain.

The additional powers recommended in the Regulator’s statutory report are novel powers which exceed those of our European partners. As such, it was necessary to conduct an intensive consultative and legislative process to fully inform the drafting of a new statutory instrument.

My Department has forwarded the draft statutory instrument to the office of the Attorney General to complete the final stages of its legal scrutiny.