Theres quite a small amount of manual FTO's in ireland, for some strange reason VRT is lower on the tiptronic and there cheaper to buy in the jap auctions so much more popular,
Wavin - Unrivalled European supplier of plastic pipe systems
The majority of FTOs out there are Tiptronic (at a guess 70% or so), in saying that you can still pick up manuals, you have less of a choice and they tend to command slightly higher prices.