Paddy Comyn

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Today with David McCullagh · Half a Million Irish Motorists Facing Higher Motor Insurance Costs After Clocking Up Penalty Points · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

And if anything, the numbers I felt were quite conservative.

We would do similar figures at Dundee Cars and the numbers we would see would be quite significantly higher in some cases than the SRIs for a lot of drivers.

I think the report did look at what would be a 2016 car and lots of people are driving newer cars, new car sales are flying at the moment.

And the costs for those per year would be much more significant because obviously depreciation is a factor.

Yeah, even their fuel figures, I feel, were slightly conservative.

The figures from the CSO are the average kilometres are about 16,500 kilometres.

So I'd put, you know, someone running a diesel car would be closer to €2,000 per year in fueling.

um electric cars would be by our measure about 800 euro per year and a mixture between home charging and public charging so so um so it's slightly above but look you know it does give an indication of what the average costs are and and look i think what's what's important is people don't necessarily see the costs as they come through because they're in dribs and drabs

get your insurance bill fuel is ongoing

People tend not to maybe monitor things like parking and toll costs, which can be very significant.

We would estimate they're about 1200 to 1400 euro for the average

for parking and tolls alone.

So the costs are significant.

And I think it's a piece of advice for people to start tracking them and get an idea of what they're spending themselves.

Yeah, we've seen a massive shift, obviously, in the last couple of years, primarily down to Brexit, to the type of cars that are imported to the market.

Now, previously, the UK supplied 95% of our used car imports.

which was over €108,000 back in 2019.

This year, in just the first six months, that's flipped.

The UK is down to 14% of imports.

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