Pleas to maintain agency’s powers

The powers and advocacy role of Ireland’s National Consumer Agency (NCA) must not be lost when the body is merged with the Competition Authority.

Managing director of price comparison website Bonkers.ie, David Kerr, said he hoped the merger would not mean the watering down of the NCA’s advocacy role in the area of consumer rights.

“This is a move that has been in planning for the last 18 to 24 months and it is important that the functions of the NCA as a advocate for consumers and consumer rights are not lost.”