What do they expect? No Mon no Fun!!
Can hardly keep the roof over my head as it is!!!

And it will continue to drop with high fuel costs and taxes,the car industry will be affected big time this year.

Absolutely logical result. If you punish productive people by taxing them, you get less of productive people. And if you reward welfare mothers for their uselessness, you get more uselessness. Soon the whole fu*king country will be “the most vulnerable”. Who will the parasites try to tax then?

Spot on Dave!!!

Nearly 3/4 were diesel ? I say by this time next year diesel will be 5-7c more then petrol and it will be in the €1.70/L range. I was right last dec about diesel price reaching €1.50/L within a year

Steady on there Dave the overwhelming majority of cost to the state certainly is not accounted for by a few thousand single mothers or the unfortunate people who find themselves without a job with little or no chance of finding one that could pay them enough to pay rent/mortgage payments and have something left to buy food and pay bills. The people you would do well to point the finger at are the people who have and are being paid huge salaries for their uselessness , the ones that “work” in banking, high level civil servants, consultants , and above all Politicians past and present. Add multi-billion bailout loans which were necessitated by the uselessness of all of the above mentioned and add all of that up ( if it is even really totally quantifiable) and then tell the unemployed people who get 180 euro a week (which incidentally , is spent directly back into the economy thereby saving jobs) its all their fault. Or tell it to the unemployed self employed who cant get any benifit’s. It’s nothing more than a distraction from the real fiasco that continues under our noses while we latch on to the manufactured scapegoats. If I am not mistaken there was another genius manager hired by the incompetent state in the last few days at nearly 500 euro an hour. Just Wonderful

No wonder there down….increase in VAT..increase in motor tax…increases in car insurance…increases in tolls…increases in petrol/diesel prices..increases in parking costs…increases in parking fines…..and this is suprising why??? Btw..most of the above government led or the majority of the costs accrue to them. Cut VAT..cut fuel prices..cut car tax = encouraging people to spend more = greater tax take, job creation and increased economic activity. Maybe I should draw Dame Enda and Porky Noonan a picure…..in crayon!

Jennifer, something wrong with the maths there… 26.7% cannot be 86,000

There are almost as many numerical typos in this article as your average Irish Times front page story. Did anybody else spot how the magical number of 86,932 cropped up three separate times there? (total number of new goods vehicles for the year; new private cars licensed last year; subset of new cars that run on petrol)