Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Thank you, Chair. I appreciate that. I thank the witnesses for their presentation and for highlighting this issue in recent weeks. The committee has been taken by it for a number of reasons, principally the cost of insurance. It is very clear from the numbers the witnesses have outlined that a significant number of people are not paying their insurance, and that has a knock-on effect on the premiums we all pay. There have been some efforts by some sections of the media to somehow question MIBI's figures. I know the witnesses have done so, but I would like them to set out again in some considerable detail the methodology MIBI has used to arrive at this. I made some public statements on this at the time and a few people contacted me to say that it is actually the individual, not the car, who is insured. Will the witnesses explain that a little more?