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NCA Launches Breakthrough Website for Consumers

Nov 8, 2006, 14:47

The National Consumer Agency has launched a badly needed and world class website for consumers here http://www.consumerconnect.ie/eng/.

The following is the text of the NCA Press Release -

The new large scale portal on consumer issues ConsumerConnect.ie was launched this week by Minister Michael Martin.It is the most comprehensive resource on consumer affairs in Ireland, with more than 500 pages of consumer advice and information. ConsumerConnect features over 75 step-by-step guides on how to resolve everyday consumer problems together with

  • Interactive quizzes on consumer rights, online shopping and complaining
  • Content on scams, product recalls, prosecutions and a host of other subject of interest to consumers
  • TV  ads as MP4 downloads -- the NCA is one of the first public sector bodies to publish advertisements on its website
  • A news and research section with an RSS feed
  • An online complaints service  

Go on check out www.consumerconnect.ie  and send on the web address to your friends and colleagues.  And dont hesitate to give the NCA your feedback.

 


Consumer Bodies

Oct 27, 2006, 11:55

Having probably spread myself too thinly across three consumer bodies, the Consumers' Assocation of Ireland, for whom I have acted as a council member since 1993, the Consumer Panel at IFSRA and the Interim Board of the National Consumer Agency, I have decided to step down from the first two, CAI and the Consumer Panel.  The brief for the NCA is very broad and challenging and I believe that, in time, it will prove itself very valuable to Irish consumers.