Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion

10:20 am

Photo of Regina DohertyRegina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank all the representatives for attending the committee. I wish to ask two specific questions. The first one is for GloHealth, Aviva and Laya because I already have the information from the VHI. The companies' market share figures are freely available but the claim figures from a percentage market perspective are not available. Are the companies in a position to provide those figures?

Mr. Donal Clancy mentioned that there is an inequitable spread of customer profiles across all the insurance providers. It is a given that the VHI has the vast majority of people in the State who are costing money. What measures have the witnesses taken in the past 12 months to encourage older people to be insured by their companies? How has that worked? What reflections have they made concerning the success or otherwise of those programmes? What are their plans to encourage older people to seek insurance cover with them in future?

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