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Successive governments have been taxing motorists far too heavily. We've been charged crazy levels of Vehicle Registration Tax on all new and imported used cars. VRT is applied as a high percentage of the vehicle's cost price with blatant double taxation then applied by adding Value Added Tax on top of the VRT. That's right - our government in its haste to plunder motorists further, actually taxes its own tax. Half of the price you pay for a new car in Ireland is tax.

Platinum Energy Ltd is a Kilkenny-based company run by Tommy Brown and Fergus Power both of whom are registered assessors with the SEI (Sustainable Energy Ireland).

The Government has been lashed over its handling of the Home Energy Saving Scheme. The broadside has come for the Fine Gael spokesperson on Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Michael Ring, who said details of the scheme should not have been announced until it was ready to be implemented. The green light for the scheme was given at the beginning of February but householders cannot apply until later this month.

Following the huge success of their Energy Scrappage Scheme offer earlier this year, Senator Windows are pleased to announce the re-introduction of the scheme this week. “We had a huge increase in enquiries regarding our energy saving products when we launched the scheme in the spring,” says Geraldine Sullivan, marketing manager of Senator Windows.

Energy Minister Eamon Ryan has urged householders in Mayo to avail of the Government’s Home Energy Saving Scheme; as over half of the budget has already been applied for.