Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment

Engagement with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission

2:00 am

Mr. Simon Barry:

It was published this summer. It looked at information provision in the market for home buying. I refer to one of the actions that we have taken on foot of the research because part of what we found in the course of that study was that consumers are frustrated and dissatisfied with the level of information provision, the quality of it and the time that the entire process takes, hence Mr. McHugh's point earlier about the conveyancing profession reforms, which we regard as important. On the Deputy's specific question, one of the actions we have taken is to write new guidance targeting estate agents and developers in order that we will set a new higher standard for information provision in property advertisements. That is something that we will be working on in the coming year.

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