Tag Archives: useless quangos

UK Government proposes a “Consumer Tsar” – do we need one too?

Recently, I asked the question here as to whether Irish consumers should expect a better level of consumer advocacy and protection than [...]

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 [...]