Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised)
11:10 am
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
The information is held by Insurance Ireland and shared with the Central Bank which receives whatever information it requests. What is essential to attract competition to the market is having insurance claims data published by an independent respected organisation. That is what the CSO is. After long discussions, the committee made this recommendation. The data should not be collected by the Central Bank but by the CSO. I encourage the Minister of State to examine this recommendation and discuss it with the Minister of State, Deputy Eoghan Murphy. I hope they will come to the conclusion that the CSO and its staff are the ones who are independent in this area and should do this work.
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