Comments on: Irish Financial Regulator – Bizarre and toothless http://www.publicinquiry.eu/2006/08/01/irish-financial-regulator-bizarre-and-toothless/ Examining corruption in Ireland Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:13:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Jim http://www.publicinquiry.eu/2006/08/01/irish-financial-regulator-bizarre-and-toothless/comment-page-1/#comment-303402 Jim Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:59:16 +0000 http://www.publicinquiry.eu/2006/08/01/irish-financial-regulator-bizarre-and-toothless/#comment-303402 The Financial Regulator, unsuprisingly, does not keep copies of its annual reports for past years available on its website. This despite the fact that their Publications page has a drop-down menu for choosing the year, with options going back to 2004! To put this in context, most plcs make their last five annual reports available for download on their websites, as do most Government quangos. Anyway, I was wondering if you could send me a copy of the 2006 report you mentioned in this article and any previous ones, if you have them in pdf format. Slán The Financial Regulator, unsuprisingly, does not keep copies of its annual reports for past years available on its website. This despite the fact that their Publications page has a drop-down menu for choosing the year, with options going back to 2004!

To put this in context, most plcs make their last five annual reports available for download on their websites, as do most Government quangos.

Anyway, I was wondering if you could send me a copy of the 2006 report you mentioned in this article and any previous ones, if you have them in pdf format.

Slán

]]> By: Doyle http://www.publicinquiry.eu/2006/08/01/irish-financial-regulator-bizarre-and-toothless/comment-page-1/#comment-521 Doyle Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:31:42 +0000 http://www.publicinquiry.eu/2006/08/01/irish-financial-regulator-bizarre-and-toothless/#comment-521 Dear Sir/Madame, I was interested to find your website. I was particularly interested to find your article on the Irish Financial Regulators. For me the Irish Government pressed the self destruct button 7 or 8 years ago by introducing policies designed to drive up house price inflation. Most other countries/governments that I am aware of try to do the opposite. These policies were put in place in a small country where there is no regulation anyplace whatsoever. These policies have fallen perfectly in place for the Irish media who consequently have thrived on the surge in advertising revenue. Given that the media won't bite the hand that feeds it - the Irish people are being led blindly into un-chartered waters. But enough talking. What I would like to do is identify ways to make the public aware of what is going on so that they react appropriately. POSSIBLE ACTIONS: 1./ Hire a helicopter and do a leaflet drop in Galway, Limerick, Cork and Dublin (and face the consequences later). 2./ Pick one political party, somehow have them blamed for everything and somehow make sure they are wiped out in the next general election (Dec 06 I think?). 3./ Have a protest against RTE - somehow get a large sector of the population to stop paying their licenses. 4./ Have a public protest against any company that advertises on RTE during prime viewing time. 5./ Pick one day per month where the public (who want to protest) jointly refuse to buy a news paper. What about the first Monday of every month? I could go on but I should be working. I don't mean to sound too "off the wall" but we "the people" must somehow club together and react before this country that we all love actually collapses. I remain open to (peaceful & legal) suggestions, Kind Regards, Doyle Dear Sir/Madame,

I was interested to find your website. I was particularly interested to find your article on the Irish Financial Regulators.

For me the Irish Government pressed the self destruct button 7 or 8 years ago by introducing policies designed to drive up house price inflation. Most other countries/governments that I am aware of try to do the opposite. These policies were put in place in a small country where there is no regulation anyplace whatsoever.

These policies have fallen perfectly in place for the Irish media who consequently have thrived on the surge in advertising revenue. Given that the media won’t bite the hand that feeds it – the Irish people are being led blindly into un-chartered waters.

But enough talking. What I would like to do is identify ways to make the public aware of what is going on so that they react appropriately.

POSSIBLE ACTIONS:

1./ Hire a helicopter and do a leaflet drop in Galway, Limerick, Cork and Dublin (and face the consequences later).

2./ Pick one political party, somehow have them blamed for everything and somehow make sure they are wiped out in the next general election (Dec 06 I think?).

3./ Have a protest against RTE – somehow get a large sector of the population to stop paying their licenses.

4./ Have a public protest against any company that advertises on RTE during prime viewing time.

5./ Pick one day per month where the public (who want to protest) jointly refuse to buy a news paper. What about the first Monday of every month?

I could go on but I should be working.

I don’t mean to sound too “off the wall” but we “the people” must somehow club together and react before this country that we all love actually collapses.

I remain open to (peaceful & legal) suggestions,

Kind Regards,
Doyle

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