Seanad debates
Wednesday, 28 May 2003
Auctioneering Profession: Motion.
I am a great believer that the more information made public about how people do their business, the more the consumer is empowered. Whether it be engineers, politicians, pharmacists, auctioneers or whatever, the more the public knows, the stronger the position the consumer and the more likely it is that people will operate to decent standards. One hears those anecdotes about people could not get an honest answer as to the size of the second room in an apartment they were buying in Dublin, the response of the auctioneer being if that person did not want it, there were dozens of others who did. If we allow market forces to prevent people from getting the rudimentary information to permit them to make so-called rational decisions, we will actually be forcing them into making irrational economic decisions.
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