Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 September 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed)

11:00 am

Photo of Rose Conway WalshRose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Again, there is an over-emphasis on that solution but I appreciate the point Mr. Carty is making. I need to ask about the point made that older cars do not have the safety features of modern cars and may have previously crashed or been renovated. Surely with older cars, it depends on who is driving them. Older cars cannot go at the speed of newer cars so how can somebody with years of experience driving a ten or 12-year-old car at a reasonable rate and obeying all the rules of the road be a higher risk than somebody who is speeding in a new car? How do brokers calculate that?

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