The proposal to ’seasonalise’ car registration in Ireland may not make any immediate difference to Irish car buyers’ habits, writes Brian Byrne.
That’s the view of Volkswagen Ireland’s John Donegan, who says any such changes will need time to show real effects.
The advent of the ’13’ registration plate has prompted increased interest in the idea, one which the Irish motor trade has been pushing for some years.
There’s speculation that, to avoid a ’13’ plate, the Government will use the issue to divide the registration process, with ’131’ prefixing registrations in the first half of the year and ’132’ prefixing the second half.
This would, in time, provide two registration ’high points’ as there is in Britain.
