Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

General Scheme of the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022: Discussion

Ms Clare McNamara:

I mentioned that we had done a public consultation, and which method is favourable would have been one of the questions we posed. There were some legal doubts raised around the opt-out option. Certainly, in terms of the consultation, the responses we would have gotten would have been mostly in favour of an opt-in choice. That would have helped us in our policy decision.