Spend on healthcare — not car scrappage

YOU report (August 15) that the SIMI is campaigning to extend scrappage subsidies to protect the car industry.

But Ireland does not have a car industry — it imports cars manufactured abroad.

The SIMI claims there are environmental benefits from scrappage — a saving of 74gm/km of CO2 per vehicle — but they admit they have no details for scrapped cars, and they are unable to substantiate this figure.