Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 8 September 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion
11:00 am
Mr. Kian Griffin:
Based on what was said about contesting age discrimination, I agree with Mr. Faughnan on the gender issue. That was a mistake. As a young male driver, I would be the one to be targeted. That was a mistake because they are pricing young female drivers in the same way as young male drivers. We would have the same issue then if we challenged the age discrimination - they might price older drivers as having the same risk as younger drivers - so I am not confident that this would be the ideal way to go. Some of the people I represent would probably not like me saying that, but targeting it across the full spectrum would not be the ideal way to go.
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