Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 21 November 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Fergal O'Leary:
I will speak in general terms. In price signalling, a company is telling its competitors what it plans on doing and they then react. That is different to a cartel, which is a secret agreement and would lead to a criminal investigation by us. Currently, this is a civil investigation. It is about putting information in the public domain that a company's competitors then act upon in terms of their pricing strategies or engagement with their customers.
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