Tag Archives: The Competition Authority

Can someone tell Dan White at the Herald that the NCA is going away?

Dan White of the Evening Herald wrote yesterday evening about the fact that Ann Fitzgerald has declined to accept her bonus, thought [...]

Competition Authority and National Consumer Agency. A marriage made in hell?

I wrote previously, Are the Competition Authority happy to be merged with the National Consumer Agency?, about how it was unlikely that [...]

Consumer advocacy and protection: is there something better?

Since I started my regular ValueIreland.com blogging I’ve been quite critical of both the National Consumer Agency (NCA) and, more recently given [...]

Useless quango reorganisations – Financial Regulator and National Consumer Agency

This story went up on the RTE website yesterday evening – Commission to replace Financial Regulator. The main point of the article [...]

Are the Competition Authority happy to be merged with the National Consumer Agency?

Probably not is the short answer. Especially if you read the submission from the Competition Authority to the Consumer Strategy Group back [...]

Getting rid of the National Consumer Agency?

Regular readers are probably aware that I’m not a big fan of the actions of the National Consumer Agency. And though it [...]

NCA still failing to discourage car clocking

I had the post below drafted earlier this week. It’s still current, but given the recent budget, it does raise a key [...]

Tinkering Around the Edges – Budget 2009

That’s about the sum total of my thoughts on Budget 2009 from Brian Lenihan. Lots of messing around here and there, but [...]

Labour Party announces investigates price difference between petrol and diesel

Last week, I blogged about an expensive diesel price I noticed in Wexford. Also noticeable in the picture was the fact that [...]

Fine Gael Declares War on Useless Regulators

Eventually Fine Gael were going to come up with a decent idea – and yesterday it was announced that “Kenny declares €50m [...]