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Lies, damned lies and statistics: car scrappage scheme

An tSaoi 04/02/2010

An Saoi: On Tuesday morning Alan Nolan of the Society of the Irish Motor Industry was on Morning Ireland and made reference to the increase in car sales in January of approx. 5%. He uttered some of the same phrases that were mentioned about shopping in the run up to Christmas, which as the January VAT returns showed did not conform to the facts. …



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