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I am awaiting details about setting up a meeting with the European Commission Represenative here in Dublin . Can you write on this forum if you are interested in joining or not ?
I am also awaiting to hear what the European Consumer Centre has to say about my complaint .
Carol
Yes i am interested. Thanks Denis.
I am interested
yes interested in pursuing via EU Commission / Consumer route
but not suing
thanks
Hi , I'd also be interested ..thanks ..
I have been communicating with Brian Crowley MEP - he is Irelands only representative on the JURI sub-committee (Legal affairs).
I forwarded details of two French legal cases successfully taken against Eurogroup which might be of interest to you:
Cour D'Appel, pau - No: 08/01396 (2010)
Cour De Cassation - 10-15.003 (2011)
I am unable to paste the links for some reason!
His secretary recently emailed me to advise that he is bringing the issue to the European Commission.
I would urge all Irish owners to contact his office and do the same.
Any English owners, should find their MEPS on the EU JURI subcommittee and do like wise.
The more people pushing this issue the more likely we are to succeed.
CathW
Hi CathW,
absolutely - I will be contacting Brian Crowley.
I agree, the more owners who contact him the better, and create pressure from an EU perspective the better. That is what they are there for - to represent Irish interests and protect them. This clearly has not happened thus far.
I think we need to quantify the issue in terms of number of Irish owners involved and encourage all to contact him.
I'll contact you directly on it.
Hi Carol,
I am interested in any actions to sort out this situation.
I have also spoken to Catherine and will follow her advice and contact Brian Crowley.
There is power in numbers, I learned a lot from Catherine. I think we should contact and perhaps have a meeting and develop strategies to put the pressure on and find out the real situation and our actual rights.
Patricia
Hi
I will also cantact Brian or should we not all arrange to have a meeting with him so he can hear it all at once form a number of us ?
I am still awaiting information from European Commission I will let you know when I hear anything .
Carol
Hi Catherine
I have just written a long letter to Brian Crowley too and sending
it off Monday . I am also writing to Siobhan Duffy EU Commission which I would urge you all to do ....YOU NEED TO WRITE for anything to be done .
I will see what her response and then see what I/we can do in that respect .
I have also written to the European Consumers Office and lodged a complaint aqbout my selling agents and management company ....YOU NEED TO WRITE TOO.....I cannot write for all individuals .Thye will look in to the case too.
I am writing to PRIME TIME too........YOU NEED TO WRITE TOO .....could you tell your story to them .The more the better .
I will see what they say and revert back about having a meeting later in Dublin.
I also contacted Siobhan Ryan , Sunday Independent and she said she would write about the mess in September please tell me if you will bhe part of her story ?????
Leave your name /email/phone number here so I cann pass it on to her
carol
I have contacted one of the UK newspapers to see if they have a journalist who would be interested in investigating/publishing this.
The owner of our letting agent company is English and has a subsiduary in the UK so this might be of interest.
There might also be an equivalent of CH 4 "Cowboy Builders" (Consumer Watchdog) that might be interested? Any ideas on this?
CATH
I just wrote long letter to Prime Time and told them some of our stories and have asked them to do a programme on the whole scam .
PLEASE WRITE TOO as the more people that write the more interst they will take of the scam .
So if we got PRIME TIME and the Sunday Independent ....qwell that is a start .
Newspapers are very hard to write to . You need to try and find the persons EXACT email address to write to and even at that it is hard to get them to write .
As Prime time closes for the Summer it would be Autumn before they would do anything .
carol
Hi Carol,
I have written to MEP Brian Crowley and encourage all to do the same.
Regarding Siobhan Ryan, Sunday Independent, do you have contact details for her ? Perhaps you could txt me. I've googled her but found nothing..
thanks
Sinead
had a hard time getting it ...will text her email to you tomorrow o.k
carol
I am a very determined person...I don't usually gibve up until I get what I want !!!
Journalist who wrote article for the independent is a free lance journalist and her name is Sinead Ryan (apologies - think I might have said Siobhain).
Her emails is: sineadryan100@gmail.com
CathW
Sinead Ryan wrote an article promoting French leaseback in May in the Indo - see http://www.independent.ie/life/home-garden/5-alternative-ways-to-invest-...
Like many of those property journalism pieces, it quotes the 'authoritative voice', generally someone who has a financial interest in the selling of these disastrous French leaseback properties, who emphasises once again, the 'guaranteed rent' and the 'major' tax incentives...
I'll drop her a mail!
yes im interested