Kieran O'Donnell (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Demand led. Representatives of the insurance companies were before us last week. Some of them stated they reckoned up to 20% of claims were fraud related, yet we find that the fraud related complaints referred to An Garda Síochána account for only 3% of what happened since last October. There were 1,500 in total, and only 50 of those related to insurance fraud. There is inconsistency between what we are told by some of the insurance companies and the reality of the complaints.

Deputy Commissioner Twomey might respond on whether it could arise that it was decided to not allow complaints on fraud received to be regarded as fraud. Does the figure of 50 fraud matters comprise the cases An Garda Síochána deemed to be fraud? What is the total number of fraud insurance complaints that were received, some of which might not be deemed to have been in the category of insurance fraud? I am looking for the total number of reports here.