FRANK E. BANNISTER,
Sir, - I have just received my annual car insurance renewal notice. The premium is up 65 per cent on last year. Add this to an 18 per cent rise in my VHI subscription, an impending 13 per cent rise in domestic electricity charges and a putative 18 per cent rise in the cost of gas and one starts to wonder on what the offically projected 3 to 4 per cent increase in inflation for this year is based.
A steep drop in the price of political promises, perhaps? - Yours, etc.,
FRANK E. BANNISTER,
Stillorgan Wood,
Blackrock,
Co Dublin.
