Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Can I follow up on that? I do not want to delay the meeting. Dr. Maguire is proposing to have an insurance policy in place but QQI, through public procurement, decides who provides it. Instead of being like motor insurance, where there is a legal requirement to have a policy of insurance, QQI is going to say there is a legal requirement to have the policy of insurance that it provides. Would it not be simpler to have a legal requirement that insurance be in place and let the market dictate it? Would that not take all the administrative hassle out of it? I am not here to represent insurance companies and I do not think I have met them about this, although they have certainly communicated with me about it, but everyone to whom I have mentioned this cannot understand why the State is taking on this responsibility.