Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 January 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Simon Kayll:

I will take the point on open disclosure and candour first. We absolutely support it. We run education programmes for our members and encourage them to be open, to disclose and to show candour. We cannot compel our members to do that nor can we compel them to report to us adverse incidents but we absolutely advocate and support it.

In regard to Senator Crown's question, when a member leaves public practice and chooses to go wholly private, even if the quantity of that private practice stays the same, for the first 12 months his or her subscription does not increase, but after that it does. The Senator is quite right that it could increase quite substantially.

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