Your headline and the Irish Times headline bear no relation to the copy of the Irish Times piece, it does not mention anything about an Ombudsman. The nearest thing is a report of Coughlans mention of a ‘code of practice” between retailers and suppliers etc.
I’m sorry but the idea is completely daft.
We have far too many public bodies as it is. Would any code of practice or an Ombudsman for food be able to reduce the minimum wage or any other input significant cost for the industry? Of course not but still the Ombudsman would be on six figure salary with staff in a nice office and all the trimmings and all from taxpayers money.
I once saw Mary Coughlan on RTE 6 News state that she wanted to see lower prices for consumers but certainly not at the expense of “fair” (aka high) prices for consumers. Buy high and sell low is not a receipe for survival anywhere but in Mary’s dreams.
This is another instance of such fairy tale ‘genius’.
Tuesday 23 June, 2009 at 3:19 pm
about time!!
Tuesday 23 June, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Your headline and the Irish Times headline bear no relation to the copy of the Irish Times piece, it does not mention anything about an Ombudsman. The nearest thing is a report of Coughlans mention of a ‘code of practice” between retailers and suppliers etc.
I’m sorry but the idea is completely daft.
We have far too many public bodies as it is. Would any code of practice or an Ombudsman for food be able to reduce the minimum wage or any other input significant cost for the industry? Of course not but still the Ombudsman would be on six figure salary with staff in a nice office and all the trimmings and all from taxpayers money.
I once saw Mary Coughlan on RTE 6 News state that she wanted to see lower prices for consumers but certainly not at the expense of “fair” (aka high) prices for consumers. Buy high and sell low is not a receipe for survival anywhere but in Mary’s dreams.
This is another instance of such fairy tale ‘genius’.