Aideen Hayden (Labour) | Oireachtas source

First, I just want to make a general comment. It never ceases to amuse me how people talk about the health of an economy in relation to new car sales. To the best of my knowledge, not a single component of the average imported car is manufactured in this country, so how it is supposedly helping the Irish economy is a mystery to me. I presume it is supposed to indicate the robustness of an economy.