Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 April 2019

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

Insurance Costs for Small and Medium Businesses: Discussion

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the witnesses to the committee. I know that it was difficult for Ms Murray in particular to give her contribution as a person who has invested so much of her life, expertise and resources in a business and is facing that uncertain outcome in 25 days. Many members are familiar with other play centres that, unfortunately, have closed. Some in my constituency are facing the same future and uncertainty as Ms Murray. I ask her to explain to anybody listening why insurance companies will not insure a soft play centre in Ireland. Is it the case that only one insurance company based in Britain was doing so but is now pulling out of the market? I ask her to explain why the situation has come to this point.

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