As our absent host Ciaran Hancock pointed out in his column this week, few tears will have been shed among the public at news that motor insurance providers were raided yesterday by the European Commission. But what's really going on behind closed doors in the industry? Joe Brennan and Cliff Taylor explain why lower premiums are unlikely, no matter what the outcome of investigations.

Then Eoin Burke-Kennedy has analysis of the latest exchequer figure returns for the first half of the year, and the interminable wait for provision of rural broadband.

Today's podcast is hosted by Dominic Coyle.