Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed)
11:00 am
Mr. Stephen Watkins:
It is better because more people are using the system. The number of claims received in that period would be a lot smaller than that - I think it is under 30% - but, again, if we focus on the past three years, we see that is when the problem emerged. The 4.5% increase in motor claims between 2013 and 2015 - it was slightly down in the first six months of this year - shows that the problem of premiums seems to have arisen in the last three years.
No comments