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)

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

This could play out, for example, whereby an award made in a certain Eircode postcode area which, according to CSO data may have a very low level of education, perhaps only primary education, is less than what is paid out for an identical claim in Dublin 4. An insurance company would pay out less in a more impoverished area because it would believe that person would be less likely to challenge the claim payout.

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