Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 September 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed)

11:00 am

Mr. Michael Horan:

That was some time ago but we have done a lot of work since then on the technology to try to improve that. The InsuranceLink database is an anti-fraud claims database that insurance companies feed into. It was established back in 1987 to provide an anti-fraud claims database. When an insurance company registers a claim, it puts it onto the InsuranceLink system. If it gets a match on the system it might mean that the insurance company would take a closer look at the claim. It does not mean that anybody is fraudulent. It just means that-----

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