Competition And Consumer Protection Commission
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Share trading: the choices, the charges, the risks
- Personal Finance
- May 19, 2020, 05:30
Every time the stock market goes into meltdown, people start to wonder if, rather than demonstrating the hair-raising volatility of share trading, it (...)

Motor insurers’ collective move on rebates looks a lot like cartel behaviour
- Economy
- April 28, 2020, 02:30
The Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe, called in the insurance industry recently to pressure it to offer motor rebates during the Covid-19 crisis.(...)

Coronavirus: Over one million people now receiving State income support
- Health
- April 20, 2020, 11:45
More than one million people are now receiving some sort of State income support, Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty has said. The Departm(...)

Coronavirus cancellations: are you entitled to a full refund?
- Personal Finance
- April 14, 2020, 05:34
Oh, the plans we had – concerts, staycations, city breaks, exercise classes, Irish college, package holidays, post-Leaving Cert bashes – but then alon(...)

Are the travel industry and airlines playing fair in coronavirus crisis?
- Consumer
- March 30, 2020, 00:00
With thousands of people falling ill in Ireland in recent days and far too many people losing their lives as a result of the coronavirus pandemic at h(...)

Consumer agency warns over ‘sanitiser products’ website
- Irish News
- March 23, 2020, 22:44
Ireland’s leading consumer agency has warned about a website that has listed a range of hand sanitiser products for sale. In an unusual move the Comp(...)

Simplified merger procedures will help speed up the process
- Sponsored
- February 20, 2020, 00:00
One tried and tested way to grow a business is to buy another. Before you can do that, however, you’ve got to satisfy the local competition authority.(...)

Majority of credit card users don’t know interest rate – survey
- Financial Services
- January 31, 2020, 05:37
The majority of people who own a credit card don’t know what interest rate they may have to pay, a survey commissioned by a credit union lobby group h(...)

Concert promoter MCD says dealing with regulators cost €3m
- Retail & Services
- January 29, 2020, 15:30
Concert promoter MCD has said that dealing with regulatory investigations into the sale of half the company to a joint venture with Live Nation cost €(...)

Plenty of politicians’ promises, but what about these ideas to help consumers?
- Consumer
- January 27, 2020, 02:06
Election manifestos have been coming thick and fast over recent days, and politicians have been falling over themselves to make promises that they say(...)