Did the Restrictive Practices Commission extract any commitment from Mr. McTaggart in relation to the resale of any of the properties in view of the persistent rumour in the grocery trade that a number of the stores are now going to be sold to Dunnes?

We have neither exacted nor received any gurantee in regard to the remaining 13 stores.

The Minister has been duped again.

We have received guarantees which protect employment, much of it between now and Christmas. To take any other course of action or to pretend there was an ideal solution could have put all those jobs at risk between now and Christmas, all for the sake perhaps of protecting a half of 1 per cent of the market.

You started the grocery war.

If this exchange across the floor continues I shall pass on to the next question.