who is going to enforce this legislation. I’ve been trying to highlight how a certain estate management company in cahoots with a management agent and the estates developers were defrauding the residents /shareholders of the estate . I have evidence and i showed it to the Gardai, ODCE and the consumer association – they all told me to go to someone else. Its great having these laws but not so great when noone is willing to enforce them

No point making new laws if you are not going to use them.

Lock up Fingers, Seanie, Bertie and Drumm – that’d help the national psyche get on the road to recovery…

So what about politicians who have been found to abuse their expenses etc?

double nothing is still nothing!

I know it’s been written many times but the chances of any of those thieves being brought to justice is highly remote , one if not all just know too much, they were joined at the hip with many politicians, so bean spilling will ensue if cornering takes place.

FF have appointed most of the Judges in this state, many of them are party members and related to FF reps etc.

A very sizeable no. of them are going to be open to being persuaded that ” such and such is a friend of the party, let him go, he is a good sort, sure its not like he is a mugger or a junkie”.

They have appointed countless countless of their own people to senior positions in the guards and DPP.

When the justice and legal system is so compromised from within, you cannot expect fair and honest trials or justice. These people owe FF their jobs and massive perks and salaries. Favours are constantly called in, that is they work.

The prisons are full.
It is very unlikely white collar criminals will be incarcerated and if they are they will likely get early release.

Competition Abuses are costing the economy circa €4billion per annum (Dr. John Fingleton estimate given to Public Accounts Committee 2004) that is €4 billion each year! That is a lot of Household Charges, Septic Tank Charges and Special Needs Teachers etc. The Competition Authority has failed to carry out its statutory function since its inception. It has proved little more than a phantom body throughout its 21 year history.

Cartelists steal billion’s of Euro per year from Irish consumers, thereby artificially inflating our cost base and condemning tens of thousands to the dole queues. It appears that successive administrations are in awe (or perhaps hock) to big business and cannot countenance enforcing the law of the land against these criminal offenders. The same applies to the OCDE. This has to change.

With cartel activity at epidemic levels, businesses closing daily and unemployment at record highs, it is time to take the bull by the horns and restructure the Competition Enforcement regime. This root and branch requirement means placing the entire investigative and enforcement function in the hands of An Garda Siochana – preferably as a division of the Criminal Assets Bureau. This stand alone enforcement agency should be supported by legal and economic experts. In this way, the emphasis and extra funding can be deployed on criminal investigations.

Alongside or as part of the Criminal Assets Bureau Division, there can be a slimmed down version of the present authority to deal with mergers, market studies and advocacy. That said, the best advocacy is action and newspaper headlines detailing business elite receiving custodial sentences will quickly get the deterrence message across.

This radical restructuring will be of massive benefit to the exchequer, bringing in hundreds of millions in fines annually whilst lowering the cost base of the economy and creating jobs. Effective Competition Law Enforcement will provide an ongoing devaluation effect for the economy in much the same way that many economists repeatedly call for the devaluation of our currency.

Mick Wallace too!!!

fagan its only when one of them get caught do you see the corruption and no lawyer will go against another ,the one thing that is deafening is the media silence.

When he calls for Wallace, fitzpatrick, drumm and aherne to go to prison then I’ll listen otherwise it’s a load of populist bull. FFg and labour accuse sinn fein of this type of thing every time they object selling of the Irish people down the river Rhine and them come out with this.

Id rather see crackdown in youth crime, beatings, murders and animal cruelty not in the less relevant area possible, but good for something anyways maybe its start for other changes too.