The law should make small print bigger

I HAVE two documents in front of me.

One details the terms and conditions for use of my credit card.

The print in some of the paragraphs is so small I cannot read it.

The other is an advertisement. The last four lines cannot be read because the print is too small and it is written in white text on a pale blue background.

If Micheál Martin is serious about his Consumer Protection Bill, he should include a clause along these lines:

“Any contract, or agreement, containing text of less than 12 point size shall be invalid in this jurisdiction. It is illegal also to publish advertisements containing text of less than this type size”.

How about a text, e-mail or postcard campaign in support of the insertion of such a clause?

Brendan Casserly

Abbeybridge

Waterfall

Co Cork