Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Difficulties in Obtaining Home Insurance: Discussion with Irish Insurance Federation

3:05 pm

Photo of Ciarán LynchCiarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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You do. The European report, in which the Irish Insurance Federation took part and which was published last week, examines Europe in geocoding terms, whether for earthquakes, floods or subsidence. The Irish Insurance Federation is a part of this report and geocoding is a methodology used in it. I will put the question to the witnesses. Does the Irish Insurance Federation need to examine geocoding by its members to allow households not at risk of flooding but which have been geocoded as such to get out of the tyranny of geocoding as it applies to them?