INDEPENDENT Ireland TD Richard O’Donoghue deemed it “laughable” that a Tipperary woman was charged €179 more on her car insurance premium after she moved to Limerick.
Speaking in the Dáil, Deputy O’Donoghue asked how it is possible to have different car insurance quotes for different counties?
Deputy O’Donoghue said that he met a man whose wife had relocated from Tipperary to Limerick and when she “went to renew her car insurance premium with the same company she has been insured with for the past 20 years, they charged her €179 more because she had moved to County Limerick”.
“Even though the same person is driving the same car, she is being charged more because she got married and moved to County Limerick. When we tried to find out the reasoning for this, we were told it is all down to computer assessments on insurance claims within each different county,” he said. “It does not matter whether you are in the city or the county; you are within the county bounds.”
Deputy O’Donoghue took the view that an insurance company should cover all of Ireland rather than singling out individual places.
“Why is it the case that if you go to Galway you get one quote, if you go to Kerry you get another quote, if you go to Tipperary you get another quote, and if you go to Limerick you get a different quote again? How can it be possible to have different car insurance quotes for different counties?”
