The Consumer Show returned for a brand new 10-part series on Wednesday, March 4th at 8.30pm on RTÉ One. Presented by Keelin Shanley, with reporters Tadhg Enright and Ella McSweeney, the team will fight for consumer rights, look at the issues that hit your pocket and investigate your complaints.
This season Tadhg Enright compares property rental rights in Ireland to those on the Continent, meets mobile phone users suffering from battery anxiety and finds out how Irish researchers are working on a remedy. Baffling charges for mysterious texts and the perils of buying a second hand car will also be investigated.
Joining the team this year, Ella McSweeney reveals the issue that’s costing our health service more than €20 million a year, and a lot of it is down to our love of chicken. It’s been called the poultry industry’s dirty secret, why the levels of bacteria are still so high on our supermarket shelves. Ella also shows you what to look out for when buying a puppy and investigates the rise of food intolerances, fact or fad?
Through-out the series the team will also give tips on how to save money and shop smart, explain the best time of year to buy certain products, show how to save money on your car and will help guide you through the complicated world of gifting cash to your children.
Episode nine of The Consumer Show continues on Wednesday, 29th April, at 8.30pm on RTÉ One.
The Consumer Show hears from viewers suffering allergic reactions to a chemical preservative in their cosmetic, skincare and household cleaning products. There are large numbers of sufferers in Ireland, yet why have so few of us heard of Methylisothiazolinone (MI)? While changes to regulations are afoot in Europe for skincare products, a leading Irish dermatologist says it does not go far enough.
The team also investigates complaints from consumers about the online reward programme, Complete Savings. Tadhg Enright meets with consumers who didn’t realise they had inadvertently signed up to a paid subscription service called Complete Savings. After purchasing tickets online, our complainants clicked a link thinking they were getting a one-off cashback offer. However, they subsequently discovered that they had actually subscribed to a monthly subscription service at a cost of €12 a month.