CCPC Issues 31 Enforcement Notices to 18 Traders; No Outcome Yet Recorded
The consumer watchdog has instituted administrative action over alleged price display and consumer rights breaches. The matter is at the notice stage only: no determination has been recorded and the allegations remain untested.
The has published details of 31 fixed payment notices and compliance notices issued to 18 traders in Waterford, Donegal, Dublin, Galway, Kerry and Wicklow over alleged consumer rights breaches, according to reporting by the Avondhu Press.
The matter is at the charging stage and is undecided. The proceeding is recorded as , and the available material records no adjudication, finding, penalty outcome or other resolution. The claims set out below are the CCPC's allegations and have not been tested or determined. No response or answer from any of the named traders is recorded, and it is not known whether any has replied, paid, contested or accepted a .
The CCPC states the traders committed a range of consumer rights breaches, including failure to comply with price display laws, failure to display unit pricing, and giving consumers misleading information about their rights, the Avondhu Press reported. One trader is said to have failed to display a required precious metals information . The measures followed inspections and investigations by CCPC officers in store and online.
The named traders are Cedarglade Ltd trading as Centra, Greystones, Co. Wicklow; Seafront Gold trading as Spar, Bray, Co. Wicklow; Wescooley Ltd trading as Oasis Bar, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal; Dee-Al Retail Ltd trading as Spar, Dublin 8; Glenella Foods Ltd trading as Eurospar, Ballymun, Dublin 9; Lucy McEvilly trading as Connemara Horse and Country, Clifden, Co. Galway; Pixie and Linus Ltd trading as The Hen & Hog, Ashford, Co. Wicklow; Skerries Hardware Limited trading as Skerries Hardware and Pet Centre, Skerries, Co. Dublin; Corajio Unlimited Company trading as Mr Price, Kingsmeadow, Co. Waterford; Ballymaley Stores Ltd trading as Homesavers, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal; Rafterstreet Stores Ltd trading as Homesavers, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal; Owen & Ciaran Durkin trading as Costcutter, Baile na hAbhann, Co. Galway; P&T Fitzgerald (Hardware) Ltd trading as Fitzgerald Homevalue Hardware, Dingle, Co. Kerry; Pure Fashions Ltd trading as pureonline.ie, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal; Crean Solutions Ltd. trading as MicksGarage.com, Dublin 10; Party HQ Ltd trading as Christmas HQ, Stephens Green, Dublin 2; Woodside Furniture Ltd trading as Pieces, Malahide, Co. Dublin; and Tongali Trading Ltd trading as Ciaran O'Flynn Jewellers, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. Lucy McEvilly and Owen & Ciaran Durkin are named as individuals rather than companies.
The action is an proceeding, and the documents at issue are notices. The CCPC's published details are available at .
Because the matter stands at the stage, readers coming to this report later should not treat it as a record of any final result: nothing in the available material shows how any of the 31 notices was ultimately resolved.
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