Charlie Weston

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1,990 appearances 20 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2 Sep

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The Last Word with Matt Cooper · Personal Finance: How To Save Money Between Now And Christmas · 2 Sep 2026 podcast

There is a working group set up by the government in the last two weeks to look at what we what we need to do about houses that just can't get insurance because they're in flood pro prone areas, they're flooded by four.

Uh there's about one in five uh homes out there that that can't get uh can't can't get insurance.

Sorry, about tw um one in twenty, sorry, one in twenty.

One in twenty just can't get flood insurance.

Or if they do get it, some people are having to pay through the neck for it, or else there's big exclusions.

So it is becoming a real problem.

So they have these kind of things in Britain, they have levies, a levy to pay for

Uh a kind of a insurance for people who can't get it, you know.

So the insurance Ireland uh are saying we sh we should have a twenty four euro levy per household uh to to fund a kind of uh have a fund that would help people with who can't get flood insurance.

Now this is granted we have we have quite a few levies already.

We have a non life levy which is uh essentially there just to kinda help bail out an insurance company if it gets in trouble.

That's about

Three percent of the value of your premium.

And then the old Quinn levy, ever since Sean Quinn's companies blew up uh in bits, that that's now down to one percent, at least it's half of what it was.

Uh but it's there as well.

So we may have to wear another levy at some stage though for this flood thing because uh it is really a problem for people.

If you've got a an issue with that you can't get flood insurance, you can't get proper insurance, well then your mortgage

is affected, you can't sell the property.

It is a real big problem for people uh and you need to spend a lot of money in you know trying to do something about it and the government also are pumping money into excuse the pun into trying flood prevention schemes but they're you know there's still major, major problems in the country with this and it's going to become as we as uh you know more and more of a problem as climate change becomes worse unfortunately.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper · Irish Shoppers To Be Hit With New Charge On Goods From Outside EU · 19 Aug 2026 podcast

There's gonna be another one.

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