AA: Kenny must rein in soaring cost of insurance

The Taoiseach needs to belatedly intervene to stop the costs crisis that has sent car insurance premiums rocketing 35% in less than two years, the AA has said.

The motoring organisation yesterday said nothing less than an independent probe encompassing a number of government departments and agencies would work to rein in soaring car insurance costs.

“We want the Government, probably with the Taoiseach’s leadership or the Department of the Taoiseach’s leadership, to establish a taskforce to address these issues,” said Conor Faughnan, AA director of consumer affairs. “We are not prone to melodrama in this regard but if we are going to get those disparate actors to act in concert together, it is going to need leadership from the top level in Government — and we are not just not getting that at the moment.”