Consumer Rights Enforcer Bill 2004

Public bill · Private Member · Introduced

The proposal would replace the Director of Consumer Affairs with an independent Consumer Rights Enforcer, appointed on the recommendation of the Dáil and Seanad and by the President. The Enforcer would be able to publish price comparisons, identify businesses charging excessive prices, create service standards and quality marks, review the Small Claims Court’s limits, represent consumers in national negotiations, and advise on relevant laws. It would also raise penalties for consumer and pricing offences—up to €100,000 in some cases—and allow administrative fines instead of court proceedings.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to establish the consumer rights enforcer, to provide a mechanism for independent appointment, to confer more extensive and effective powers, to provide for the imposition of administrative fines, to increase the fines payable for an offence, and for those purposes to amend the Consumer Information Act 1978 and also the Prices Act 1958

Last updated 6 September 2018