Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To be fair, the authority does so but Senator Coghlan, Deputy Mitchell O'Connor or the person at home should not have to seek that information. It should not be a treasure hunt. The insurance companies should make the information readily available, and we will ask them about that later. I also appreciate the volume of people in contact with the authority. To be fair to health insurers, when one contacts them, they respond but the concern I have is that the spike in premiums has forced an exodus from the private health insurance market which is a source of worry to the person at home who is balancing budgets.