An amendment to the Agri-Food Regulator Bill to enable to regulator to go the High Court for an Order compelling the provision of data sought in the event that it wasn’t being provided was not accepted by the Minister for Agriculture.
The new Agri-Food Regulator will not have the power to determine who is profiteering from food price increases. Until this is changed, it will just be a waste of money.
Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin doesn’t want any State agencies tasked with ascertaining the minimum cost of production of essential food items in Ireland. It can’t be that he doesn’t understand the issue as he was the Trade Minister that removed the ban on below-cost selling of groceries.
Independent Clare TD Michael McNamara has received a commitment from Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in Dáil Eireann today that tomorrow’s (Wednesday) scheduled discussion of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill will be extended.
Independent TD Michael McNamara has expressed concern the Government’s proposed Agri-Food Regulator could be a “toothless tiger.”
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