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Today's Fresh Blogs...| National Consumer Agency - Yet another useless government agency |
| Published: September 25, 2007, 4:22 pm |
| Tags: Useless Regulators, National Consumer Agency, Nca, Office Of Director Of Corporate Enforcement |
| damning evidence of the uselessness of the National Consumer Agency. First of all, how many employees are there in the NCA? And they still can only come up with a pre-written bog-standard generic unhelpful PFO e-mail reply to a complaint? In almost a carbon copy of the response I received from the similarly useless Office of Director |
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| Further evidence of how useless the NCA are! |
| Published: November 21, 2007, 4:32 pm |
| Tags: Useless Regulators, National Consumer Agency, Nca, Office Of Director Of Corporate Enforcement |
| Back in September, I wrote about how the National Consumer Agency and the Office of Director of Corporate Enforcement were taking to writing to PFO letters to this Irish consumers coming to them for help.Some time ago, I found a further example of such a letter from the NCA sent to Ach go h irithe after a complaint about drinks pricing in a |
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| We're in the safe hands of our regulators |
| Published: December 17, 2007, 6:27 pm |
| Tags: Useless Regulators, Ifsra, Financial Regulator, The Irish Times |
| I wonder if Bertie had it in mind that the assessment of our Financial Regulator he's planning (referred to here on Public Inquiry) would cover the hygiene habits of staff within the Central Bank?Cracking article here (sub required) by Quentin Fottrell in todays Opinion section of the Irish Times. The relevant quote for our purposes here is as |
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| ODCE - look at how great we are....NOT!!! |
| Published: January 7, 2008, 2:22 pm |
| Tags: Useless Regulators, Office Of Director Of Corporate Enforcement, Odce |
| complaints are rising, this useless government agency is doing even less than last year, and is still trying to make itself look good. |
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| NCA - Crowing over pointless Tesco prosecution |
| Published: January 29, 2008, 5:11 pm |
| Tags: Useless Regulators, Tesco, National Consumer Agency, Nca |
| fantastically useless National Consumer Agency strikes again. Today, they told us how they'd secured a prosecution against Tesco Ireland (the Dundrum store).Excellent, they're looking after our interests. The very naughty "Tesco Ireland was convicted in respect of failing to display the selling price of two items: twin pack tissues and toilet |
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| Property Management Companies - Call for Submissions: National Consumer Agency Stakeholder Forumon Multi-Unit Developments |
| Published: January 30, 2008, 4:42 am |
| Tags: Dublin West, National, Tesco, National Consumer Agency, Nca, Useless Regulators |
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| NCA - can't be arsed doing their jobs? |
| Published: February 10, 2008, 4:25 pm |
| Tags: Useless Regulators, Grocery Prices, Price Rises, National Consumer Agency |
| Back in July last year, we had some fun with the National Consumer Agency over their grocery price survey which excluded Aldi and Lidl. I was reminded this today by an article by Ian Kehoe in the Sunday Business Post, Focus on 14bn grocery trade.A quote from the article goes as follows:The National Consumer Agency (NCA) recently published a |
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| Another useless Irish regulator on its way - lucky us! |
| Published: February 15, 2008, 10:56 am |
| Tags: Npsra, Useless Regulators, Estate Agents, Auctioneers, The Irish Times, Nca, Odce, Regulation |
| here and how the currently useless Irish regulator who's empowered to act won't actually do so - preferring to "work with them".So, the Irish Government response to the Irish problem is to set up another useless regulator, the National Property Services Regulatory Authority (NPSRA), to specifically regulate, amongst other things, property |
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| You're paying for the NPSRA - to do SFA! |
| Published: February 13, 2008, 5:32 pm |
| Tags: Useless Regulators, Npsra |
| Authority (NPSRA).The new useless regulator has:An office in Navan in MeathA Chief Executive DesignateA staff of up to 5 people (I believe)A budget of 0.5m (or 1m according to here)The new useless regulator does not have:Any power whatsoever to do absolutely anything |
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| Further comments on the ridiculous NPSRA |
| Published: February 18, 2008, 3:07 pm |
| Tags: Useless Regulators, Nca, Npsra, Odce |
| it's a pointless future useless regulator one of many created by our current government.As per my original post, I don't believe that the proposed involvement of the NPSRA will have any positive impact on the current dodgy situations that exist between developers, property management companies and property management agents.And regards |
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| Useless Regulators - Another new one - I'm losing track |
| Published: February 24, 2008, 4:09 pm |
| Tags: Useless Regulators, Office For Internet Safety, Tom Raftery |
| Thanks to Tom Raftery for this one. He's referring to an Irish Independent article - Internet tsar to make children's surfing safer. A noble aspiration obviously, but as pointed out by Tom, the article has the following statement:Although it will have no power to fine internet service providers, Mr Lenihan said that he would not hesitate to |
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| NCA Grocery Price Survey - Nothing New |
| Published: February 27, 2008, 3:36 pm |
| Tags: Useless Regulators, Grocery Prices, National Consumer Agency, Nca |
| The NCA have launched their new grocery price survey today - their press release is here. The headline of the release is as follows:The National Consumer Agency (NCA) has published the findings of its survey comparing grocery prices between Ireland's multiples, symbol groups, discounters and independents shops. Among its main findings, the survey |
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| Irish Food Prices are out of Control |
| Published: February 28, 2008, 7:47 pm |
| Tags: National Consumer Agency, Ireland, Food, Competition, Supermarkets, Inflation, Prices, Food Prices, Rip Off Society, Nca, Grocery Prices, Useless Regulators |
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| We're the ultimate nanny state' |
| Published: March 3, 2008, 4:37 pm |
| Tags: Useless Regulators, Regulate Better, Irish Independent, Bertie Ahern |
| of our numerous Irish regulators is something that's of interest to me. So, obviously then, this article - We're the ultimate 'nanny state' - piqued my interest today.According to the article: Ireland is among the most heavily-regulated countries in the world and has become the ultimate "nanny state", according to new research. We |
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| What is the National Employment Rights Authority (NERA) for? |
| Published: March 9, 2008, 8:14 pm |
| Tags: Useless Regulators, National Employment Rights Authority, Nera |
| we identified yet another useless government regulator? |
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