IN January 2014 then Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar announced in the Dáil that he was “proposing to introduce a statutory control procedure in relation to written-off vehicles”. The announcement was made in response to a question put to him by Deputy Timmy Dooley (FF) who had expressed concern about “reports that more than 200,000 written-off cars are still being driven”. That figure of 200,000 was published by Cartell.ie earlier that month. The introduction of … Continue reading Why we need to tighten up how we deal with and dispose of write-offs