Recently, I asked the question here as to whether Irish consumers should expect a better level of consumer advocacy and protection than [...]
Tag Archives: useless quangos
National Consumer Agency – need more staff, or just need a clue?
The Annual report of the National Consumer Agency for 2008 was release recently. To cover up the fact that they’re not actually [...]
Pricing Legislation – The problem with Sale pricing
The short answer is, after a “reasonable period of time”. Yes, it’s as fuzzy and hazy and non-specific as that. Perfect for [...]
Consumer News Weekend Short Stack
Here’s a few items for you for the weekend:
First ever negative comment – This week say my first ever negative comment on [...]
Aileen O’Toole and the National Consumer Agency
In doing the research for this post, I was looking for links between Aileen O’Toole and her nominees to her IdeasCampaign Advisory [...]
ConsumerValue from the National Consumer Agency
A press release this morning has announced a new sub-section to the National Consumer Agency website called ConsumerValue.
According to the blurb on [...]
IdeasCampaign – Advisory Council Named
I’ve written a couple of times so far about how I’m not convinced about the IdeasCampaign that is being promoted by Amas [...]
Irelands crap tourism promotion
I’ve received a few e-mails in the past couple of weeks about how useless people think Tourism Ireland are when it comes [...]
Who YOU gonna call? Aid hard to track
Irish News of the World
February 15th, 2009
Diarmuid MacShane
Somebody should do something – but who you gonna call?
As a consumer, you’ve found that [...]
Latest National Consumer Agency Grocery Survey – the real story
In the light of much criticism for the pointless nature of carrying out grocery pricing surveys, the National Consumer Agency still proceeds [...]
