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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I ask that question only because in the ether there is a suggestion that people were always trying to ensure that the car was insured in terms of the impact of the penalty on the other side. That, for many people, was a priority. The tax might often lag. I am, therefore, surprised if that is the control MIBI has used. Could there in fact be a greater number not insured because of those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: That is helpful. The witnesses are clearly here with a straightforward ask: progress the legislation. I agree with my colleague, Deputy O'Rourke, that the committee should recommend to the Government that we move that as quickly as possible. May I broaden the question of detection a little? The dreaded speed vans sit on the side of the road and we all regularly encounter them, with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: There are other technologies. The tunnel has a speed restriction and is dynamically-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: It surely does. Similarly, a section on the M7 south of Nenagh is also monitored. Will Mr. Fitzgerald speak about demographics and the age group that has been identified? I am concerned about a particular age cohort of people who succeeded in remaining on the road by getting successive provisional licences without ever having to do a test. That situation was changed a number of years...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: The MIBI's information is based on the accidents on which it pays out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: By their nature, elderly people are less likely to be involved in accidents.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Which is the case across the piece, but there may be people in other categories.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: The MIBI has no access to those data. Perhaps this committee could try to capture them based on Garda surveillance or other data from the Garda.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I was taken by the statement that a couple of countries had no uninsured cars. That is difficult to believe, but maybe it has to do with the systems in those countries. Mr. Fitzgerald mentioned Germany in this context. What knowledge can he share with us about how Germany does this business?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: It might just be due to their administrative systems. Achieving 100% compliance with anything suggests to me-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Maybe we need a system change instead of an examination of detection methods.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Thank you, Chair. I appreciate that. I thank the witnesses for their presentation and for highlighting this issue in recent weeks. The committee has been taken by it for a number of reasons, principally the cost of insurance. It is very clear from the numbers the witnesses have outlined that a significant number of people are not paying their insurance, and that has a knock-on effect on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister and I appreciate his open and frank statement. My questions will, I hope, address the overall context. We have reached an impasse and the Minister has identified some of the background to it. Clearly he will not engage in the tit-for-tat exchanges that seem to exist here. Is he satisfied that the legislation is strong enough to address the situation that has evolved...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: There is a regular interaction between the departmental officials and board members generally because the board reports to the Department. Have there been any exit discussions with them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I am only putting this to the Minister because we hear things second-hand but something that has been mentioned to me in passing is that the board did not feel it could act in a particular way because of legal threats that were issued against it. The threat was that if the board was to move in a particular way on the executive, the board members, as I understand it, would be sued. I can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Not at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I am trying to understand where we are trying to start a process to appoint a new board. I am conscious that at least in public, there does not seem to have been a resolution of the issues which led to the various differences. I presume that the senior counsel's report is available to Mr. Barry and Mr. Neely. Are Mr. Barry and Mr. Neely charged with the full powers and responsibility,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I am still trying to understand the resolution here because clearly there are problems that have led us to the situation we are in. Will it be a matter for the new board to act on the report that is created or developed by Mr. Barry or Mr. Neely, or is the expectation that they are being charged from the shareholder to resolve the problems before a new board is appointed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I will reiterate the point I made at the outset, which was in respect of the process of operation, to put it like that. When one looks at this in the context of the board of a private company - which it is not - one would certainly not expect any half-decent private company to be embroiled in a situation like this where people would be retiring or resigning from a board in the way that this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Okay.