Consumer agency needs more bite

WE were promised a great cull of quangos, three years ago.

Most of the beasts are still roaming the land, but two of them are set to march up the aisle in merger/ matrimony following publication of the long delayed Competition & Consumer Protection Bill.

Once the legislation is passed, the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency will cease to exist and the happy couple will live on as the Competition & Consumer Protection Commission. Quite some mouthful, that.