Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I give credit where credit is due, and always would but these issues are sadly lacking and the Road Safety Authority is not doing what it should be doing, nor are many other quangos. If they were, the insurance cartels would be broken. We have regulators for insurance too. What is going on with young people is an abomination. They are being destroyed and their fathers and mothers are being broken with the pain from trying to pay for them. With the costs of staying in college, people have to have cars. We set up a committee two years ago which came up with 28 recommendations. Three would have been enough but the insurance rip-off still goes on. That is the fact of it. It is fine for people to laugh. I think some of them represent rural constituencies so I do not know what they are laughing at-----

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