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Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Any price gouging by any major supermarket holder should be transparent. All their profits should be shown. Some people look at the smaller outlets whose turnover is up but whose profits are down. It is some of the major ones we need to look at to see why this is. We also have to look at the part the Government has played in this. It introduced wage increases, which we welcomed, but...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: I thank the Social Democrats and will support this very important motion. Since 2021, grocery costs have surged nearly 40%, adding €3,000 to annual family expenses and pushing more than 100,000 children into consistent poverty. These are some examples. Brennan's white bread, 800 g, increased from €1.87 in 2022 to €1.99 in 2025. Avonmore milk, 2 l, rose from...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: That is true.

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Gillian Toole: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward this important subject for discussion. At the risk of being pedantic, I have said it before but I will say it again and continue to say it: there is a very important saying, let food be your medicine. It is the foundation of health. The health basis and the knock-on health effects of this issue are yet to play out. I totally understand the...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Charles Ward: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward this very important motion, which I fully support. There is no doubt skyrocketing grocery prices coupled with huge increases in other household costs, like energy and rent, are putting huge strain on families across the country. Right now families in Donegal find themselves caught in a pincer movement between the cost-of-living crisis and...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the motion from the Social Democrats. It is very important and opportune. Families across the country are struggling to make ends meet. The cost-of-living crisis is an ongoing crisis that is no longer temporary or once-off. Everything is going in one direction, which is up. This includes food prices, energy prices, rents, mortgages and transport. Energy prices, for instance,...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Ireland is the second-most expensive country in Europe. It is quite incredible we have a situation where parents are lying awake at night not knowing how they are going to pay certain bills. I know parents who, as soon as their monthly wages drop in, go into another overdraft to keep them going until the wages next come in. The Barnardos report yesterday was absolutely shocking. For some...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 1: After "compare prices and make informed choices" to insert: "calls on the Government to: — commit to passing the Competition and Consumer Protection (Unfair Prices) Bill 2023; and — instead of using over €700 million to cut the rate of Value Added Tax on hospitality in Budget 2026, to use these hundreds of millions...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I have the humble Snack bar in my hand. Its price has doubled. People used to be able to get 12 of them for €1 a decade ago. The price is now €5. It is not the farmers in Africa who grow the cocoa who are benefiting from this. Supermarkets should have to tell people if they are paying more for less. Supermarkets are gouging people. They must be forced to publish their...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: This motion is necessary, urgent and overdue and I thank the Social Democrats for bringing it forward. People are carrying the cost of a crisis they have nothing to do with. We can continuously talk about taking measures to deal with rising costs, and the Social Democrats outlined actions relating to it. Change the legislation and take action to bring about the necessary structural changes...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: The fact of the matter is that normal working families are being affected by a cost-of-living crisis. This Government has lost control of it. Week on week, families see their shopping bills rise and rise, and the Government is burying its head in the sand, ignoring people's hardships and refusing to bring forward a cost-of-living package. Even the conscious shopper using the so-called...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Thomas Gould: The price of butter has risen, according to the CSO, by 58% in 12 months. A staple in every house in the country has risen by nearly 60%. The CSO consumer price index shows that the prices of the most basic items have increased and the Government is doing nothing about it. For pensioners, those with disabilities, people with low incomes and families, this makes a difference between whether...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I call an Teachta David Cullinane. Two speakers are listed but there is just the Teachta here at the moment.

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: I will take all the time. That is great. I commend the Labour Party on tabling this motion.

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Social Democrats.

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: Sorry, the Social Democrats. They have given us an opportunity to have this discussion. If you talk to anybody in the real world, the cost of living is one of the biggest issues impacting workers and families. People are paying huge amounts of money on mortgages, rents, childcare and insurance costs. Almost everything is going up. That includes the price of groceries and food. It seems...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an rún seo ó na Social Democrats. Sinn Féin will be supporting this motion. By any measure the Government has failed to get to grips with the cost-of-living crisis. It is either doing nothing or making things worse. If we name any of the issues, we can see that we are paying more. The price of everything has gone absolutely through the roof, from...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Johnny Guirke: The rising cost of food has been a worry for many families. Food inflation is now running at double the rate of general inflation, with many families being forced to fork out an additional €3,000 per year just to keep food on the table. The prices of the likes of meat, cheese bread and beef have skyrocketed. The cost of a pound of butter has increased by more than €1 in the...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Máire Devine: The cost of every single aspect of life in Ireland has been on a constant upward trajectory since Covid arrived in 2020. Yes, we can point to Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a cause for the increase in energy costs, which in turn caused food prices to increase around the world, but when energy costs eventually decreased, our food and goods prices did not follow. Supply costs are impacted by...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I thank the Social Democrats for putting forward this timely and worthwhile motion. This is an important issue that affects everyone in the State at this time. Everyone knows that Ireland is one of the most expensive states in Europe for groceries. The gap between us and our European neighbours looks to be growing year on year. Some prices could be understandable but when we look at the...