Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 November 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion
9:30 am
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
There is a clear pattern here.
Let us take taxi drivers as an example as I and many other members have raised this issue previously. I got a call from a constituent, a taxi driver in Donegal who has had motor and home insurance policies with Liberty Insurance for more than ten years. He has two cars and has not made any claims. He told the company he wanted to put another taxi on the road, as part of an expansion of his business, which is great to see. Liberty quoted him €11,700. That emphasises the point that, while all of this feet-dragging has been happening, people are being fleeced.
There was only one reference to taxi drivers in the plan and that was for an advisory committee on small, public service vehicles to enter into regular discussions with Insurance Ireland to explore solutions for drivers in these sectors. How many times has that committee met?
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