Where are the refunds gone?
A new bill aimed at tackling “rogue service providers” in the telecommunications sector and stamping out premium rate phone service scams was brought before the Dail by the Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan yesterday.
While it allows for greater regulation of a sector which has been guilty of all manner of dodginess over the last 10 or 15 years, the new bill seems to have forgotten to include amongst its clauses, the power to force rogue traders to give refunds to consumers it has ripped off.
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