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. Gary Dunne:

I will answer the query about underwriters. I do not know how many underwriters are in Ireland as there are no statistics on that. We refer to the top eight having approximately 90% of the market share, with six of those companies having many people on the ground. They are not branches, I suppose, but entities. There are two that are branches of UK companies but there is a legal distinction in how the passporting works. There are six based here with underwriters here, as far as I am aware. With the other two, they may have underwriters here but I simply do not know.

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