PQ 262
292 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will ask the Competition Authority under section 30(2) of the Competition Act 2002 to carry out a market study or analysis of the cement, concrete and aggregates industry considering the vast amount of local authority money spent on those products including cement, concrete, asphalt, tarmac, bitumen, sand, gravel and so on; the recent findings by the Office of Fair Trading in the UK; the fact that proceedings have been initiated by the European Commission against the main operators in the industry in ten EU countries including a participant in the Irish market and two players in the Irish market who have previously been fined on a number of occasions for anti-competitive practices in Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9773/12]
Introduced
21 February 2012
Last action
—
Status
written
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
21 February 2012
Summary
292 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will ask the Competition Authority under section 30(2) of the Competition Act 2002 to carry out a market study or analysis of the cement, concrete and aggregates industry considering the vast amount of local authority money spent on those products including cement, concrete, asphalt, tarmac, bitumen, sand, gravel and so on; the recent findings by the Office of Fair Trading in the UK; the fact that proceedings have been initiated by the European Commission against the main operators in the industry in ten EU countries including a participant in the Irish market and two players in the Irish market who have previously been fined on a number of occasions for anti-competitive practices in Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9773/12]
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
1 official file
Competition Authority
Competition Authority
xml · EN · 21 February 2012
Sponsors
No sponsors or actors listed by the source.
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2012-02-21/262/
- Open data entity: https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/question/2012-02-21/pq_262