CONSUMERS will face higher prices for their everyday shopping basket if the Government presses ahead with its plans for a code of practice for the grocery sector.

The country’s leading think-tank today revealed it will not be withdrawing a report on a controversial incinerator heavily criticised by opponents of the scheme.

Opponents of a controversial incinerator today questioned the independence of a study by a leading think-tank backing the scheme.

THE ESRI has found itself on a collision course with the Department of the Environment after the think-tank described the department’s waste management review as “flawed,” adding that it failed to create jobs, enhance competitiveness and meet EU Landfill Directive targets.

SHOPPERS could see the price of their groceries rise and have fewer local products to choose from because of Government plans to impose a code of conduct on the retail trade, a leading economic think-tank has claimed.

The Competition Authority yesterday introduced a new series of published reasoned decisions on selected closed investigations.