Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment

Engagement with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission

2:00 am

Mr. Brian McHugh:

The recommendations around changing that have started to come into play.

They are now having an effect. They are not complete, and they cannot go backwards. We need to move the decisions around personal injuries into the Injuries Resolution Board, IRB, which is happening. Mr. Barry talked about that today. That is one element of it.

The other element is we need to see entry. Entry is absolutely key to a healthy market, new ideas and new business models coming in. We have not seen a lot of that yet. That is something that we monitor in terms of the market. We do engage in terms of the information available to new entrants. Previously, a new entrant could not get access to all the historic information that it needed in order to price its insurance products, so-----

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